Black Creek Crayfish

The Black Creek crayfish eats aquatic plants, dead plant and animal material, and detritus.

This small to medium-sized crayfish has dark claws and a dark body with a white or yellowish mid-dorsal stripe, white spots or streaks on its sides, and a rust-colored abdomen.

The Black Creek crayfish lives for approximately 16 months and reproduces once during its life cycle.

The Black Creek crayfish is endemic to four northeastern Florida counties (Clay, Duval, Putnam, and St. Johns) in the Lower St. Johns River Basin.

Black Creek crayfish occur in flowing, sand-bottomed, tannin-stained streams that contain cool, unpolluted water. Within these streams, Black Creek crayfish require aquatic vegetation and debris for shelter with alternating shaded and open canopy cover.