New species named after Curator of Crustaceans

Cambarus taylori, named in honor of Dr. Chris Taylor, INHS Curator of Crustaceans

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, accessible here.