Tenuibranchiurus glypticus Riek, 1951 ‒ The Paperbark Swamp Crayfish (2)

Species Account

A small, gregarious, semi-terrestrial, endemic Australian species restricted to coastal areas in southeast Queensland. Typically found in seasonally inundated wetlands, particularly paperbark swamps. Tolerant of a wide variety of soil types from clay to humic sand.  Lives in deep communal burrows during the drier winter-spring period but may be found n shallow water amongst leaf litter in summer. Easily confused with juvenile Cherax but the chelae of the first chelipeds open and close vertically rather than horizontally or obliquely. — John W. Short, 2026

Image

Specimen collected from Eumundi area, southeast Queensland, Australia, John W. Short, May 1999. Photographed by John W. Short.