Archaeopotamobius?

[Fagus]

Hi Folks,
a colleague of mine asked me what kind of freshwater crayfish Archeopotamobius sibiriensis could be.
I am working on morphology of freshwater crayfish and thought I knew all the taxon names and phylogeny stuff, but never ever heard of this one.
First I thought could be some strange old Austropotamobius name but found nothing in my literature. Then I thought could be Cambaroides because of sibiriensis but I think I would have read about it.
In the net I found only gene stuff.
So I am interested to learn more on this topic.

Sincerely
Fagus

[jwfetz]

I noticed that name in GenBank a few years ago and have no idea where it came from. Perhpas it is someone not familiar with crayfish and they just have one of the currently valid names totally wrong (??). I don't know where they would have gotten it, but it is listed on Genbank as being in the Astacidae.

It looks like the name was submited to Genbank as follows:
Submitted (26-MAR-2002) Hoehne W., Institute for Biochemistry,
Charite, Humboldt University Berlin, Monbijoustr. 2, Berlin 10117,
GERMANY

Perhaps they could be contacted to find out what this is??
If you find anything out, lets us know back here at the forum as I would be interested in the answer to this as well.

Cheers,
JWFetz

[Fagus]

Okay, I wrote him and he sended me follwing information:

it is a Marmorkrebs (he wrote me a variation of P. fallax). They also have no clue about the name Archeopotamobius but the material they got (2002) had this name.

Greetings Fagus