crayfish

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Crayfish covered in this film tried to escape up the sides of the steep riverbank, while the occasional live fish jumped out of the water or flailed near its surface, gasping.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2023

Crayfish and other invertebrates play important roles in their ecosystems, so anything affecting them can cascade throughout a habitat.

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2021

Crayfish are functionally extinct in most of the gulf: the few that are left play no meaningful role in the ecosystem, for example in keeping urchin numbers down.

From The Guardian • Mar. 11, 2020

Crayfish in irrigation ditches supplemented seafood from the coast.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Crayfish or ‘Cape lobsters’ abounded near the anchorage.

From Essays on early ornithology and kindred subjects by McClymont, James Roxburgh