NC Physiographic Region(s): coastal plain

River Basin(s): Lumber, Waccamaw, possibly lower Cape Fear and Northeast Cape Fear

Adult Habitat: “lentic and lotic situations and burrows” (Hobbs Jr. 1989); slow, slack, or stagnant areas (like pools) in piedmont streams; associated with vegetation or woody debris in swamps

Juvenile Habitat: same as adults but more associated with littoral areas

Reproductive Season: late summer, fall

Species associates: fall and spring but extended

Conservation status: placed on North Carolina Watch List (W.F. Adams and J.E. Cooper in Clamp 1999); considered by Taylor et al. (1996) to be Currently Stable throughout its range

Identification references: Cooper 1998, Hobbs Jr. 1989, Hobbs 1991

Taxonomic Description:

body shape: cylindrical, large animal
coloration:  shades of tan, brown, and green with dark speckles or light mottling
spines: strong cervical, cephalic, branchiostegal, and marginal spines
rostrum: long; with marginal spines and long spiniform acumen
areola: narrow
chelae: not robust
other characteristics: n/a
form I male gonopod: distal ¼ of shaft straight; subapical setae arising from promiment knoblike eminence at cephalic margin; setae and knob cephalic to base of cephalic process, not hiding part of cephalic process when viewed laterally