White-clawed Crayfish

Description:

10cm. Only the underside of the claw is white. The latin pallipes meaning "pale footed"

Habitat:

Rivers and streams in limestone areas of Britain and ireland.

Notes:

Britains only freshwater Crayfish.Once common but now extemely rare. A protected species,now on the endangered species Red List. Since the 1970s there has been more than a 50% decline in the areas where White-claws occur in England and Wales.This one was found in a remote stream in the county of Cumbria.