date:Apr 11, 2014
Hidden in one of Australia's most developed and fastest growing areas lives one of the world's smallest freshwater crayfish species. Robert B McCormack the Team Leader for the Australian Crayfish Project described the new species belonging to the genus Gramastacus, after eight years of research in the swamps and creeks of coastal New South Wales, Australia.
Being a small crayfish species it has remained undescribed and undiscovered in one of the fastest developing regions of Australia. Only one