Crayfish, another time known as crawfish, lobsters, crawdads, mudbugs, yabbies, or even spoondogs, come freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters, to which they are closely related. It is noticed inside bodies of freshwater that don't freeze to the bottom, which are then non polluted, and which develop shelter against predators. Occasionally crayfish own been witnessed dwelling up to 3 m (10 feet) underground.

Geographical distribution
There are ternary families of crayfish, 2 in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere. A southern-hemisphere (Gondwana-distributed) family Parastacidae lives in South America, southern Africa, Madagascar and Australasia. Numbers of Australian crayfish come of the genus Cherax; and include a marron (Cherax tenuimanus), red-claw crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus), yabby (Cherax destructor) and american yabby (Cherax preissii). The world's big crayfish, Astacopsis gouldi, is found in the lakes of northern Tasmania. It may email the weight of Foursome kg.

A personal Astacidae contains the native European crayfish, when well as people within american North America, such as Pacifastacus. A third personal, Cambaridae, contains crayfish in east Asia and eastern North America, such as Cambarus, & zarigani (Cambaroides japonicus), a crayfish endemic to Japanese rivers & pool.

Around New Zealand the name crayfish or even cray, refers to the spiny lobster, and crayfish come known as freshwater crays or koura, a Maori name for the animal.

Crayfish as a dish

Crayfish come dine in Europe and China, but it is maybe virtually all popular inside Louisiana, where a standard culinary term is crawfish. It is likewise served around various Cajun dishes in eating place about a United States. It is unremarkably prepared prefer lobster, except many supplementary come put into both pot to boil. For have as a independent dish, it is typically supplemented by things like potatoes, sausage, corn, onions and garlic bulbs cooked in the same boil, which is heavy spiced by owning cayenne pepper and other spices. A crawfish will too become fried or even blackened. There are likewise specific preparations for crawfish inside cajun and creole food, the right-known of which are then crawfish étouffée, crawfish po' boy, crawfish pie, and crawfish beignets.

Crayfish occurs as popular dish within Sweden and Finland, and is by tradition primarily consumed inside a period of the camping year in August. A boil is usually flavored sustaining salt, sugar, and a flowers of the dill plant. A catch of farm freshwater crayfish, & potentially of an ingrained Western coinage is very limited & to satisfy require a majority of what is consumed has to exist as imported. Gross sales depended in imports from either Turkey for several decades, however fallowing the decline within supply China and the United States are today a large sources important. On the american coast of Sweden, many tend to like a big salt a lake crayfish, which is caught in the North Sea. (Understand Swedish cuisine.)

A mexican crayfish is known when locally as Acocil & was a crucial nutition source of the ancient mexican Aztec culture, okay, this rather crayfish is consumed (chiefly poached) & prepared by owning usually mexican sauces or even condiments around exchange and south Mexico.

Crayfish as pets

Crayfish come periodically saved when pets inside freshwater marine museum. It may eat fish flakes, rice, & shredded carrots. It is aggressive & may attempt to eat more fish, & climb away from a tank. At night, a bit of fish be less industrious & settle to the bottom. A crayfish may underst& it as a danger and injured or even obliterate it by using its claws. Within nations in which imported alien crayfish come the danger to lakes, like Engl&, contagious and keeping crayfish when pets is one of the independent means of the spread of destructive species - since it is typically flung back into a different flow of any stream. Crayfish come too utilized when survive food for big metal money of fish tank fish, oscars, for example.