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
A little too much -- American expats bully European crayfish and spread disease, driving many local species to the brink.
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
Small crayfishes are desirable to show locomotion in water.
From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Frederic Lucas
Name three in which they differ.How are crayfishes caught for market?
From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Frederic Lucas
You can tuck up the sleeves, and we will catch crayfishes again.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola
And yet, objectively considered, there is no reason to be less disgusted at the eating of crayfishes than when some other kind of animal is eaten in the same manner.
From The Sexual Life of the Child by Eden Paul
I afterward visited the locality several times, collecting specimens of the mounds and crayfishes, which are now in the United States National Museum, and making observations.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 by Various
