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Paranephrops
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Paranephrops is a genus of freshwater crayfish found only in New Zealand. They are known by the English common name freshwater crayfish and the Māori (also written as koura in case lacking macrons).
Species
Northern Koura
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- FamilyParastacidae
Habitatfreshwater
Observations1,283
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- Family
- Parastacidae
- Collections
- MCZ, AM
- Recorded in
- New Zealand
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Parastacidae
- Image
- Paranephrops.jpg
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- Commons category
- Paranephrops
- taxon name
- Paranephrops
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- Koura
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Species
- Description
- Ecology
- Diet
- Habitat
- Predators, cannibalism and disease
- Growth
- Reproduction
- Aquaculture
- History
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Paranephrops is a genus of freshwater crayfish found only in New Zealand. They are known by the English common name freshwater crayfish and the Māori (also written as koura in case lacking macrons).
==Species== The two species are:
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