crayfish

common name for freshwater crustaceans members of the superfamilies Astacoidea and Parastacoidea

Class type of: shellfish, seafood, Decapoda Q1211742

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Facts

8 properties

Instance of: organisms known by a particular common name
Subclass of: shellfish, seafood, Decapoda
Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3^[5]^[6]^[7]
Different from: Crayfish^[9]
Fabrication method: astaciculture^[10]
Studied by: astacology^[11]
Taxon known by this common name: Astacoidea, Parastacidae^[12]^[13]
This taxon is source of: crayfish neck^[8]

🏷️ Also known as

en crawdads en crawfish en crayfish ar إستاكوزا ar الاستاكوزا ar الشارخة ar استاكوزا ar جراد المياه العذبة cs rak cs raci de Krebs de Flusskrebs el Καραβίδα es cangrejo de rio es Astacoidea es cangrejo de río es Parastacoidea es cangrejos de río es cangrejos de rio fa خارچنگ

🔖 Identifiers · 34

Library of Congress authority ID: sh85033794
GND ID: 4154901-6
OpenAlex ID: C2781403440
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID: scot/12305
BNCF Thesaurus ID: 3329
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 119355420
Biblissima authority ID: Al Luḩayyah
Concepticon concept set ID: 467
Dagens Nyheter topic ID: kraftor
Dewey Decimal Classification: 595.384
Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID: E0000323
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: animal/crayfish

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Encyclopædia Universalis ID: ecrevisse
Freebase ID: /m/0by1g
Harper's tag: crayfish
JSTOR topic ID (archived): crayfish
KBpedia ID: Crayfish
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 2781403440
NDL Authority ID: 00576957
NL CR AUT ID: ph124963
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007531265805171
PACTOLS thesaurus ID: crtka9G7maYjT
Reddit topic ID: crayfish
SVKKL authority ID: h0005926-raci
Subreddit: Crayfish
Topic's main category: Category:Crayfish
UK Parliament thesaurus ID: 440123
UNII: 9O3BO5520B
VerbaAlpina ID: C7666
Vikidia article ID: fr:Écrevisse
Wellcome Collection concept ID: t898ft7h
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID: 07804861-n
YSO ID: 26822
Yale LUX ID: concept/756f4f17-86d1-4200-94e8-c61b01fa028d

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🔗 Connections

← Made from material 11

moin moin, palm nut soup, Afang, crayfish as food, frejon, draw soup, Edikang Ikong, Banga rice +3 more

Belongs to 5

jollof rice, Ekpang Nkwukwo, Ofe Achara, Atama soup, Eka soup

Subclass of 3

Decapoda, seafood, shellfish

Taxon known by this common name 2

Parastacidae, Astacoidea

Described by source 1

Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

Fabrication method 1

astaciculture

Topic's main category 1

Category:Crayfish

← Afflicts 1

crayfish plague

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Crayfish

← Depicts 1

Two children teasing a cat

← Facet of 1

crayfish as food

← Harvested organism(s) 1

astaciculture

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Summary

crayfish is an organisms known by a particular common name^[1]. crayfish is a type of shellfish^[2], seafood^[3], and Decapoda^[4].

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Direct Wikidata claims

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ crayfish is an instance of organisms known by a particular common name (Q55983715) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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5w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Harper's tag → crayfish

"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: crayfish, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289917785|crayfish (#289917785)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
11w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗

VerbaAlpina ID → C7666

"/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ VerbaAlpina ID: C7666, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
15w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Biblissima authority ID → Al Luḩayyah

"/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority ID: Q292439, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗

SVKKL authority ID → h0005926-raci

"/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: h0005926-raci, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259492|batch #259492]]"
23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Local thumb → —

This taxon is source of → crayfish neck

Fabrication method → astaciculture

Instance of → organisms known by a particular common name

+ 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

"/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007531265805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"

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