More Euastacus in Nigeria? I doubt it…The perils of not being thorough and using common or colloquial names

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Furse, James
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2017
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As reported by the author in 2015 (Furse 2015), Samuel et al. (2015) purchased what they thought (at that time) were Euastacus spp. from Bodija Market, Ibadan, Oyo State in Nigeria. This was a ‘simple’ misidentification evidently attributed to the fact that in Nigeria all small marine and freshwater crustaceans (including Macrobrachium) are called ‘crayfish’ (as outlined in Nsetip 1985, Furse 2015). Samuel and colleagues have since corrected their 2015 paper so that it now reads “...crayfish (Nematopalae monhastatus) were purchased...” (Samuel et al. 2015), which seems more likely considering the geographical location of that study.

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Crayfish News

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38

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4

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Biological sciences

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Furse, J, More Euastacus in Nigeria? I doubt it…The perils of not being thorough and using common or colloquial names, Crayfish News, 2017, 38 (4), pp. 4-5

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