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Madagascar brown crayfish: Astacoides madagascariensis During our walk in the Ranomafana rainforest of Madagascar, we came across two local women hiking the rainforest in search of food. They carried with them two crayfish, a blue one and a brown one that they snatched from the river. This is the brown one, held by our guide.<br /> <br /> I&#039;m not 100% sure about this identification, here is my source of reference: <br /> <br /> <a href="http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/crayfish/NewAstacidea/species.asp?g=Astacoides&amp;s=madagascariensis&amp;ssp=" rel="nofollow">http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/crayfish/NewAstacidea/species.asp?g=Astacoides&amp;s=madagascariensis&amp;ssp=</a> Astacoides madagascariensis,Madagascar,Madagascar Freshwater Crayfish,Ranomafana National Park Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Madagascar brown crayfish: Astacoides madagascariensis

During our walk in the Ranomafana rainforest of Madagascar, we came across two local women hiking the rainforest in search of food. They carried with them two crayfish, a blue one and a brown one that they snatched from the river. This is the brown one, held by our guide.

I'm not 100% sure about this identification, here is my source of reference:

http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/crayfish/NewAstacidea/species.asp?g=Astacoides&s=madagascariensis&ssp=

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    travismorhardt
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    Same with this one, I feel this is right. You are pretty good at researching your critters, Ferdy.

    http://eol.org/pages/6970098/overview
    http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/crayfish/NewAstacidea/species.asp?g=Astacoides&s=madagascariensis&ssp=
    http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/crayfish/NewAstacidea/species.asp?g=Astacoides&s=madagascariensis&ssp=     Posted 11 years ago
    1. View Ferdy Christant's profile
      Ferdy Christant
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      As are you! Note that I have no background in biology at all, yet a long back in Googling :) Posted 11 years ago
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    travismorhardt
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    Sorry, I accidentally clicked "no species" instead of manually creating it :( Posted 11 years ago
    1. View Ferdy Christant's profile
      Ferdy Christant
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      No problem, I created it manually now. Thank you for your research. Posted 11 years ago

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The Madagascar Freshwater Crayfish

Astacoides madagascariensis is endemic to Madagascar, and extends a little further north than that of any other Malagasy crayfishes. The distribution of this species lies at latitudes 18° to 21° S, longitudes 47° to 49° E. Type specimens were probably collected in the vicinity of Tananarive (Hobbs 1987). This species is found in the Toamasina and Antananarivo provinces (Boyko et al. 2005). This species has an estimated extent of occurrence of 3,697 km2.

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  • NIKON D7000
  • f/6.3
  • 1/500s
  • ISO1600
  • 380mm