Cambarellus alvarezi Villalobos, 1952
Alvarez's dwarf crayfish
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1991 (Alvarez et al., 2010b)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Ejido El Potosi spring, Galeana, Nuevo León, Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
"Holotype and morphotype, IBM 1-1952 (male I, male II); paratypes, USNM."
Source: http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/crayfish/NewAstacidea/species.asp?g=Cambarellus&s=alvarezi&ssp=
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Villalobos, A. (1952). Estudios de los cambarinos mexicanos. X. Una nueva especie del genero Cambarellus del Estado de Nuevo Leon. Anales del Instituto de Biologia Universidad de Mexico 22: 525-532.
Other references:
Alvarez, F., López-Mejía, M. and Pedraza Lara, C. (2010a). Cambarellus alvarezi. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 24 April 2011.
Alvarez, F., López-Mejía, M. and Pedraza Lara, C. (2010b). Cambarellus alvarezi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T153825A4550209. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T153825A4550209.en. Downloaded on 26 June 2021.
Alvarez, Fernando and Villalobos, José Luis. (2015). The crayfish of Middle America, pp. 448-463. In: Kawai, Tadashi, Faulkes, Zen and Scholtz, Gerhard (eds.). Freshwater Crayfish: A Global Overview. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
Armendáriz, Gema, Quiroz-Martínez, Benjamín and Alvarez, Fernando. (2016). Risk assessment for the Mexican freshwater crayfish: the roles of diversity, endemism and conservation status: Risk assessment for the Mexican freshwater crayfish. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 27(1): 78-89. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2671
Contreras-Balderas, S. and Lozano-Vilano, M. L. (1996). Survival status of the Sandia and Potosí Valleys endemic pupfishes and crayfishes from the Mexican plateau in Nuevo león, Mexico, with Comments on Associated Extinct Snails. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 7(1): 33-40.
Crandall, K. A. and De Grave, S. (2017). An updated classification of the freshwater crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidea) of the world, with a complete species list. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 37: 615-653.
Crandall, Keith A., James W. Fetzner, Jr., and Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. (2001). Cambarellus (Cambarellus) alvarezi Villalobos 1952. Version 01 January 2001 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Cambarellus_%28Cambarellus%29_alvarezi/6755/2001.01.01 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
Miller, R.R. and Walters, V. (1972). A new genus of cyprinodontid fish from Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 233: 1-13.
Rodriguez-Almaraz, G. A. and Campos, E. (1994). Distribution and status of the crayfishes (Cambaridae) of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Journal of Crustacean Biology 14: 729-735.
Villalobos, A. (1955 [translation 1983]). Crayfishes of Mexico (Crustacea: Decapoda). New Delhi, India: Amerind Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. pp. 269-275.
https://www.invertebratezoology.org/NewAstacidea/species.asp?g=Cambarellus&s=alvarezi&ssp=