Crawfish Biology Explained: Life Cycle, Molting, Color, and Ecological Role
Crawfish biology helps explain why these freshwater crustaceans are among the most successful and important animals in aquatic ecosystems. Crawfish go by many names—crayfish, crawdad, mudbug—but they’re all the same kind of animal: freshwater crustaceans in the infraorder Astacidea, the same broad group that includes clawed lobsters. There are nearly 700 described species worldwide (Crandall…