crayfish
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Environmental specialist Peter Cunningham told AFP that potential sediment plumes could impact rocky shoreline habitats, crayfish spawning and breeding species.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
We see Adrian at the film’s beginning as a small child, catching crayfish and other underwater creatures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Conservation scientists and those who coordinate invasive species control efforts have different aims, but both need one thing: to know where their target crayfish are.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
Neither overfishing nor pollution, writes David Wilcove in his book The Condor’s Shadow, “has endangered as many species of fish, mussels, amphibians, and crayfish as has habitat destruction.”
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2024
“See what the waves brought to the shore last night. Catch some crayfish, ashaageshinh, watch out for their claws. I don’t mind helping.”
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
To summarize your study, write a connected account of the relations of crayfishes to their environments, under the following topics:—
From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Frederic Lucas
The crayfishes would leave these little retreats whenever disturbed, and swim away down stream out of sight.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 by Various
Upon what do you base your answer?Name two points in which earthworms and crayfishes are alike.
From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Frederic Lucas
Nothing could be seen, however, but an unusual number of prawns or crayfishes, into which they supposed the infant had been changed.
From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by George Turner
Farther east a gap occurs in the distribution and no crayfishes are met with till the basin of the Amur is reached, where a group of species occurs, extending into northern Japan.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
