Pacifastacus chenoderma (Cope 1871)

Pacifastacus chenoderma (Cope)

Astacus chenoderma Cope, 1871:606.—Rathbun, 1926:130, pl. 29: fig. 7; pls. 31–34.

?Astacus subgrundialis Cope, 1871:605. [Types not extant. Type-locality, “fresh water deposit in the Territory of Idaho, near Hot Springs Mountain.”]

?Astacus breviforceps Cope, 1871:606. [Types not extant. Type-locality, same as that for Astacus chenoderma, see below.]

TYPES.—Syntype, USNM 353343; other syntypes probably lost.

TYPE-LOCALITY.—“Catherine's creek, Idaho.” According to an annotation in a reprint, this is “a local name for the upper part of Castle Creek, Owyhee County.” A Pliocene deposit.

RANGE.—Miocene and Pliocene deposits in Idaho and Oregon.

Pacifastacus (Hobbsastacus) chenoderma (Cope)

Astacus chenoderma Cope, 1871:606.—Rathbun, 1926:130, pl. 29: fig. 7; pls. 31–34.

?Astacus subgrundialis Cope, 1871:605. [Types not extant. Type locality, “fresh water deposit in the Territory of Idaho, near Hot Springs Mountain.”]

?Astacus breviforceps Cope, 1871:606. [Types not extant. Type locality, same as that for Astacus chenoderma, see below.]

Astacus chinoderma.—Brodsky, 1981:122 [erroneous spelling].

Pacifastacus chenoderma.—Hobbs, 1974b:5.

Pacifastacus (Hobbsastacus) chenoderma.—Bouchard, 1978b:431.

TYPES.—Syntype, USNM 353343; other syntypes probably lost.

TYPE LOCALITY.—“Catherine's creek, Idaho.” According to an annotation in a reprint, this is “a local name for the upper part of Castle Creek, Owyhee County.” Previously reported to be a Pliocene deposit, Feldmann et al. (1981:788) stated that this fossil was “described from the Miocene Payette Formation in Idaho and Oregon.”

RANGE.—Miocene and Pliocene(?) deposits in Idaho and Oregon.