NC Physiographic Region(s): Atlantic slope side of mountains

River Basin(s): Broad (N. Pacolet and First Broad subdrainages)

Adult Habitat: “streams” (Hobbs Jr. 1989); “found in streams of small to medium size with trapped leaf litter” (NHP ICAS 1999); "debris along the margins of the stream" (Clamp1999)

Juvenile Habitat: n/a

Reproductive Season: extended?

Species associates: C. sp. C in North Carolina; C. latimanus, C. reduncus, C. striatus, C. sp. A, C sp. C, and P. acutus in South Carolina

Conservation status: state-listed as Special Concern in North Carolina (J.E. Cooper in Clamp1999); considered by Taylor et al. (1996) to be Threatened

Identification references: Hobbs Jr. 1989; also see description written by J.E. Cooper in Clamp (1999)

Taxonomic Description:

body shape: n/a
coloration: gray-green with cream, pink, purple, and brown highlights; chelae green with orange fingertips
spines: very strong cervical spines; hepatic, cephalic, branchiostegal, and marginal spines present
rostrum: long and narrow with straight margins; prominent marginal spines
areola: medium-wide and punctate
chelae: possessing double row of tubercles on mesial margin of palm; well-developed dorsolongitudinal ridges on fingers
other characteristics: well-developed eyes; acute suborbital angle or nearly so
form I male gonopod: corneous central projection directed caudally at about 90 degrees, narrow and slightly longer than mesial process and bearing subapical notch; mesial process inflated at base and tapering distally to rounded point at apex