NC Physiographic Region(s): upper western piedmont

River Basin(s): Catawba (see Cooper et al. 1998 for exact localities)

Adult Habitat: “lentic and lotic situations” (Hobbs Jr. 1989); “small streams to large rivers and reservoirs” (Williams and Bivens 1996); “inhabits small creeks to large rivers and impoundments; found in both pool and riffle situations under rocks and in leaf litter of fluvial waters” (Bouchard 1974).

Juvenile Habitat: n/a

Reproductive Season: n/a

Species associates: C. sp. C (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: slightly dorsoventrally compressed but fairly wide
coloration:  various shades of brown or reddish-brown with dark highlights; chelae green; tubercles cream or yellow; underside cream
spines: cervical, cephalic, marginal spines present; lacking or reduced branchiostegal spines
rostrum: straight margins, not thickened
areola: fairly narrow, having approx. 1-2 punctations across narrowest part
chelae: smooth, robust/long; bearing 2 rows well-developed tubercles along mesial margin of palm; well-developed dorsolongitudinal ridges on fingers; elonated plumose setae at base of fixed finger;
other characteristics: obsolete suborbital angle; interrupted cervical groove; eyes somewhat small
form I male gonopod: terminal elements long, curving at approx. 30 degrees to main shaft; central projection corneous; mesial process truncated and non-corneous; cephalic base of central projection without shoulder