Procambarus virginalis

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Procambarus +‎ virginalis. From being a species of the genus Procambarus which is all-female, and thus reproduces without sex.

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Procambarus virginalis m

  1. A taxonomic species within the family Cambaridae – marbled crayfish; a species of crayfish found in the wild in Europe that is the only decapod crustacean to reproduce by parthenogenesis, that speciated in the 20th-century from Procambarus fallax (slough crayfish) of Florida.

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