(Hands germ x'd immediately and washed thoroughly when opportunity arose)
Obvious tuft of hair at the base if the fixed finger, notch at the dactyl base, no suborbital angle, thus ruling out L. diogenes. It was a complete surprise to have caught these, considering this was about 20 miles from the closest historical records! From what I can tell, this appears to be a newly documented population, and possibly one of the last on the eastern shore.
Obvious tuft of hair at the base if the fixed finger, notch at the dactyl base, no suborbital angle, thus ruling out L. diogenes. It was a complete surprise to have caught these, considering this was about 20 miles from the closest historical records! From what I can tell, this appears to be a newly documented population, and possibly one of the last on the eastern shore.
I didn’t see the creature itself so it might have been a different type of crayfish.