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(KEY: E= Endangered; E*= Endangered, Possibly Extinct; T= Threatened; SC= Special Concern; CS =
 Currently Stable.  Parentheses ( ) around the status indicate possible or known introductions and a (¤)
  indicates a species complex currently  under investigation).
      Species Status
1.    Cambarellus ninae SC
2.    Cambarellus puer CS
3.    Cambarellus shufeldtii CS
4.    Cambarellus texanus CS
5.    Cambarus diogenes  ¤ CS
6.    Cambarus ludovicianus CS
7.    Fallicambarus devastator SC
8.    Fallicambarus fodiens CS
9.    Fallicambarus houstonensis CS
10.  Fallicambarus kountzeae SC
11.  Fallicambarus macneesei CS
12.  Faxonella beyeri CS
13.  Faxonella clypeata CS
14.  Orconectes causeyi CS
15.  Orconectes lancifer CS
16.  Orconectes maletae T
17.  Orconectes nais CS
18.  Orconectes palmeri longimanus CS
19.  Orconectes virilis (CS)
20.  Procambarus acutus acutus  ¤ CS
21.  Procambarus brazoriensis E
22.  Procambarus ceruleus ?
23.  Procambarus clarkii CS
24.  Procambarus curdi CS
25.  Procambarus dupratzi CS
26.  Procambarus gracilis CS
27.  Procambarus hinei CS
28.  Procambarus incilis CS
29.  Procambarus kensleyi SC
30.  Procambarus natchitochae CS
31.  Procambarus nechesae E
32.  Procambarus nigrocinctus E
33.  Procambarus nueces E
34.  Procambarus simulans CS
35.  Procambarus steigmani E
36.  Procambarus texanus E
37.  Procambarus zonangulus CS

Links:
Texas Parks and Wildlife

References:

Albaugh DW and Black JB (1973).  A new crawfish of the genus Cambarellus from Texas, with new Texas distributional records for the genus (Decapoda, Astacidae).  Southwestern Naturalist  18:177-185.

Hobbs Jr. HH (1990).  On the crayfishes (Decapoda: Cambaridae) of the Neches River basin of eastern Texas with the descriptions of three new species.  Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 103:573-597.

Johnson DP (2008). Descriptions of two new crayfishes of the genus Fallicambarus from southeast Texas with notes on the distribution of F. (F.) macneesei. Zootaxa 1717:1–23.

Johnson SK and Johnson NK (2008). Texas Crawdads. Crawdad Club Designs. College Station, Texas. ISBN: 978-0-9801103-0-2.

Penn GH and Hobbs Jr. HH (1958). A contribution toward a knowledge of the crawfishes of Texas (Decapoda: Astacidae). Texas Journal of Science 10:452-483.

Last Updated:  01 May 2008, with input from Dan Johnson.
James W. Fetzner Jr.