These maps show crayfish distribution in Romania and Europe, presented from two publications. For Romania, the publication is Pârvulescu (2010) and for Europe Souty-Grosset et al. (2006), shown here with the authors’ written permission.

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Note! If you would like to use any of these crayfish distribution maps in educational or scientific purposes, feel free to do so, as long as you use the correct reference:

Kouba A, Petrusek A, Kozák P (2014): Continental-wide distribution of crayfish species in Europe: update and maps. Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems 413, 05

Pârvulescu L (2019) Introducing a new Austropotamobius crayfish species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Astacidae): a Miocene endemism of the Apuseni Mountains, Romania. Zoologischer Anzeiger 279: 94–102

For the most up-to-date global distribution maps of crayfish species or associated pathogens, visit World of Crayfish™.