Three new species of crayfishes, endemic to the Upper Kentucky River watershed in Kentucky, have been described: Cambarus taylori, named in honor of Dr. Chris Taylor, Curator of Crustaceans at the Illinois Natural History Survey; Cambarus guenteri, named in honor of Dr. Guenter Schuster, retired professor of biology at Eastern Kentucky University; and Cambarus hazardi, named after Oliver Hazard Perry and the town of Hazard, Kentucky.
These new species were described in a paper published in Zootaxa.