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title: "Common Yabby"
description: "Cherax destructor — Altri animali. The common yabby (Cherax destructor) is an Australian freshwater crustacean in the Parastacidae family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/common-yabby
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Common Yabby

> Cherax destructor — Altri animali. The common yabby (Cherax destructor) is an Australian freshwater crustacean in the Parastacidae family.

- Scientific name: *Cherax destructor*
- Category: `other` (Altri animali)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Laghi e fiumi)
- iNaturalist observations: 1864
- Wikidata: [Q2711833](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2711833)
- iNaturalist taxon: [97352](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/97352)

## Names

- en: Common Yabby
- es: Yabbie
- fr: Écrevisse de Murray

## Countries with the most observations

AU (1464)

## Summary

The common yabby (Cherax destructor) is an Australian freshwater crustacean in the Parastacidae family. It is listed as a vulnerable species of crayfish by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), though the wild yabby populations remain strong, and have expanded into new habitats created by reservoirs and farm dams.
Other names frequently used for Cherax destructor include the blue yabby or cyan yabby. Its common name of "yabby" is also applied to many other Australian Cherax species of crustacean (as well as to marine ghost shrimp of the infraorder Thalassinidea).

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

## Photo

![Common Yabby](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-yabby/medium.jpg)

Photo: John Cull · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189316098

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/common-yabby?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).