Astacus astacus

Basic information
Scientific name	Astacus astacus	(No picture)
Common names	Noble crayfish
Higher taxon	Astacus, Astacidae, Decapoda, Malacostraca, Arthropoda
Natural range	Continental Europe
Habitat	Well oxygenated streams, lakes and ponds.

Invasion information
Range in Japan	Not established in Japan
Origin	Unintroduced to Japan.
Date
Route	This species was imported as a pet animal to Japan in past.
Impact	Potentially: Predation, competition, and damage on aquatic flora. Native organism(s) affected: Freshwater invertebrates and plants
Regulation in Japan	Import, transport and keeping of all the species of the genus Astacus are prohibited in Japan by the Invasive Alien Species Act.
Introduced range in other countries	Wide area in Europe. Cyprus; Liechtenstein; Luxembourg; Morocco; Ukraine; and United Kingdom. Italy and Montenegro populations are cryptogenic.

Reference	Notes
Environmental Agency, UAE (2010) ARKIVE. Images of Life on Earth (Accessed on 2012-7-11) http://www.arkive.org/ IUCN (2012) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (Accessed on 2012-7-11) http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Ministry of the Environment, Japan. The Invasive Alien Species Act (Accessed on 2012-7-11) http://www.env.go.jp/en/nature/as.html