Definition of Cambarus

1. Noun. A genus of Astacidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Cambarus
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Astacidae, Astacura, Family Astacidae
Member holonyms: American Crayfish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cambarus

Calymmatobacterium granulomatis
Calymmian
Calypso
Calypso bulbosa
Calyptridium umbellatum
Calystegia
Calystegia sepium
Caló
Cam River
Camaguey
Camargue
Cambarus (current term)
Camberwell beauties
Camberwell beauty
Cambodia
Cambodian
Cambodian accessories
Cambodian accessory
Cambodian capital
Cambodian monetary unit
Cambodianness
Cambodians
Camboj
Cambozola
Cambria
Cambrian

Literary usage of Cambarus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monograph of the North American Astacidae by Hermann August Hagen (1870)
"Indeed, the fact is too striking to be overlooked ; here there are few species and many varieties, there many species and few varieties. Cambarus ERICH. ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1901)
"126) calls the shape of the body " subcylindrical," and says that it resembles that of Cambarus. I cannot concur with him in this opinion; the form of the ..."

3. Elementary Zoology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1901)
"THE CRAYFISH (Cambarus sp.) Structure.—The structure of the crayfish has been already studied (see Chapter IV and figs. 3 and 4). Life-history and habits. ..."

4. The Animals and Man: An Elementary Textbook of Zoology and Human Physiology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Mary Isabel McCracken (1911)
"... IV THE CRAYFISH (Cambarus sp.) TECHNICAL NOTE.—The crayfish, or crawfish, is found in most of the fresh-water ponds and streams of the United States. ..."

5. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"Section of Cambarus propinquus Girard 1852. About ten species belong here, but some of them arc mere local races. The most important ones are C. ..."

6. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1915)
"Two genera are concerned, Cambarus of the eastern Sonoran region, ... In his discussion of the genus Cambarus Ortmann states that the more primitive forms ..."

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