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Cuban crayfish

Procambarus cubensis (Erichson, 1846)

Status not recordedcrabs and lobsters

The cuban crayfish (Procambarus cubensis) is a species in the family Cambaridae, order Decapoda.

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Quick facts about the cuban crayfish

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the cuban crayfish live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the cuban crayfish as introduced in 1 country.

  1. Germany

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the cuban crayfish endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the cuban crayfish classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classMalacostraca
  4. orderDecapoda
  5. familyCambaridae
  6. genusProcambarus
  7. SpeciesProcambarus cubensis (Erichson, 1846)

Synonyms Astacus cubensis, Cambarus cubensis

Other names and names in other languages (4)
  • rak kubánskýCzech
  • KubakrebsGerman
  • 藍紋螯蝦Chinese
  • Kuba-KrebsGerman

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the cuban crayfish

Other species in the same genus Procambarus.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the cuban crayfish an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the cuban crayfish as introduced in 1 country: Germany, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the cuban crayfish?

The cuban crayfish (Procambarus cubensis) belongs to the family Cambaridae in the order Decapoda.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Cuban crayfish (Procambarus cubensis). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/cuban-crayfish

MLA

“Cuban crayfish (Procambarus cubensis).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/cuban-crayfish.

BibTeX
@misc{cuban_crayfish_2026,
  title = {Cuban crayfish (Procambarus cubensis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/cuban-crayfish},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}