The San Antonio Zoo announced the hatchings of nearly 50 Oklahoma Cave Crayfish, “one of the rarest crayfish species in North America.”
The crayfish were born at the zoo’s Center for Conservation & Research, becoming the first to be hatched under the care of humans., which average no more than three inches in length, are only found in caves and underground watersheds in one county in Northeast Oklahoma. They are colorless with no external eyes and are at risk due to groundwater pollution.
The CCR’s partners included the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Ozark Plateau National Wildlife Refuge, The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, the Nature Conservancy, the Tulsa Regional Oklahoma Grotto, the Subterranean Biodiversity Project, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Back in San Antonio, researchers studied their reproductive biology and longevity at CCR’s facility, leading to the successful births of 47 crayfish. The zoo added that this is only the second breeding of a blind, white, and “cave-adapted” crayfish in a controlled environment.
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