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title: "Eastern Crayfish"
description: "Cambarus bartonii — Other animals. Cambarus bartonii is a species of crayfish native to eastern North America, where it is called the common crayfish or Appalachian brook crayfish."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/eastern-crayfish
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Eastern Crayfish

> Cambarus bartonii — Other animals. Cambarus bartonii is a species of crayfish native to eastern North America, where it is called the common crayfish or Appalachian brook crayfish.

- Scientific name: *Cambarus bartonii*
- Category: `other` (Other animals)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lakes & rivers)
- iNaturalist observations: 6653
- Wikidata: [Q5025022](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5025022)
- iNaturalist taxon: [83471](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/83471)

## Names

- en: Eastern Crayfish
- fr: Écrevisse de ruisseau

## Countries with the most observations

US (1646), CA (284)

## Summary

Cambarus bartonii is a species of crayfish native to eastern North America, where it is called the common crayfish or Appalachian brook crayfish.
Cambarus bartonii was the first crayfish to be described from North America, when Johan Christian Fabricius published it under the name Astacus bartonii in his 1798 work Supplementum entomologiae systematicae. The locality where his specimen was captured is not known, but is thought to be near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Cambarus bartonii lives in fast–flowing, cool, rocky streams as well as shallow lakes, and is found in the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Quebec and New…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambarus_bartonii

## Photo

![Eastern Crayfish](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/eastern-crayfish/medium.jpg)

Photo: Matthew Barbour · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/381640308

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/eastern-crayfish?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).