Freshwater Crayfish

Provides an up-to-date reference work on commercially important crustaceans.

Covers conservation status and biology of all endangered species, taxonomy, and distribution of crayfishes worldwide.

Introduces a new model aquatic organism—a parthenogenetic freshwater crayfish.

For their great commercial importance as a human food delicacy, crayfish are now becoming of wider interest to molecular biologists, an d also to conservationists due to the fact that in some countries many of the native crayfish species are under threat from human activity, disease, and competition from other introduced crayfish species. Helmed by three editors in Japan, Europe, and the US, Freshwater Crayfish: A Global Overview invites contributions from experts around the globe, covering the conservation status and biology of all endangered species, taxonomy, and distribution of crayfishes worldwide.