Red Swamp Crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) on Sep 24, 2017
Submitter has sample
Description of specimen
Blackish body with a red stripe on each tail segment and red bumps on its claws. Appears to be a young red swamp crayfish. It's about 6" long.
Commentary
Hello and thank you for your report! I agree this looks like a Red Swamp Crayfish. I will notify some of our aquatic invertebrate reviewers to see if they have any follow-up for you. In the meantime be sure not to move live crayfish from one waterbody to another, and keep an eye out for others - this could be a one-off lost bait, but we definitely would like to know if they keep showing up.
Found crawling along the bank of our private lake, which is fed by fanno creek, in Tigard. To our knowledge this is the first to be found in this lake.
Expert Reviewer
Mrs. Lindsey Wise Oregon Biodiversity Information Center, inr.oregonstate.edu/orbic Oregon iMapInvasives Institute for Natural Resources Portland State University
Here is a great resource from Oregon SeaGrant that describes Oregon's non-native crayfish, http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/sites/seagrant.oregonstate.edu/files/invasive-species/toolkit/crayfish.pdf
Thanks again,
Lindsey
Lindsey Wise
Oct. 3, 2017, 7:45 a.m.