NC Physiographic Region(s): western piedmont

River Basin(s): Broad (Broad River below Lake Lure; see Fullerton and Watson 2001 for exact localities)

Adult Habitat: “streams, ponds, and lakes” (Hobbs Jr. 1989); “occurs under rocks and in leaf litter, from pool and riffe situations… in limestone streams” (Bouchard 1974)

Juvenile Habitat: same as adults

Reproductive Season: extended?

Species associates: C. sp. A (in North Carolina)

Conservation status:  Nonindigenous (non-native) Species in North Carolina

Identification references: Hobbs Jr. 1989, Jezerinac et al. 1995

Taxonomic Description:

body shape: cylindrical
coloration: carapace in hues of bluish grey to brown or dark green; large rust-colored spots on caudolateral edges of carapace (“as though one picked the crayfish up with paint on the fingertips”); bluish-white legs and underside; tips of chelae orange, subtended by black band
spines: possess all spines, most strong but branchiostegal and cephalic may be vestigial
rostrum: acarinate; margins concave and may be thickened; excavated or concave dorsally; long, spiculiform; having marginal spines and long acumen
areola: moderately narrow, bearing 2-3 punctations across narrowest part
chelae: fingers S-shaped; double row of tubercles on mesial margin of palm; sometimes gap between fingers
other characteristics:straight, smooth edges of cutting edge of mandibles (vs. serrated in other species)
form I male gonopod: terminal elements very long; corneous central projection tapers to point and is approx. 25% length of carapace and greater than 50% of gonopod length; mesial process spatulate, slightly shorter than central projection; well-developed shoulder at cephalic base of central projection