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Crayfish News  Volume 32 Issue 4: Page 1 December 2010 Volume 32, Issue 4 ISSN: 1023-8174 (print), 2150-9239 (online) The Official Newsletter of the International Association of Astacology Inside this issue: Cover Story 1 Misadventures in Crayfish Transport President’s Corner 2 IAA Related News 3 Short Articles 7 The Decade the Clones 7 Came: Beware the Mighty Marmokrebs! Rare Orange Color 10 Morph in Stone Crayfish (Austropotamobius torrentium) Ribblesdale Crayfish 11 Conservation Project Update from the 14 Russian Federation Crayfish Fossils 16 from Hungary Meeting 18 Summary News Items From 19 Figure 2. Cambarus diogenes Girard 1852; ditch east of County Road 340, MO Route 91 (Little River Around the World drainage), Pike, Stoddard Co., MO; photo by R.W. Pierce. Literature of 22 Interest to In April 2010, I traveled to Austin, Texas, tailed bats, Tadarida brasiliensis (I. Geoffroy, Astacologists for a regional conference for southeastern 1824); the best opportunity for collecting American Natural Heritage Programs to share arose when an evening banquet was experiences and updates with the various scheduled at The Nature Conservancy’s 4084- zoologists and botanists that I work with on a acre Barton Creek Habitat Preserve in Travis daily basis in aquatic invertebrate County. Barton Creek is, at times, a seasonal conservation. Although I have traveled waterway that is part of the Austin–Travis through Texas on more than one occasion, I Lakes watershed in the Middle Colorado basin had never been to Austin before, so I was in Texas. looking forward to the opportunity to see the Following a terrific meal of roast pork, sights and to potentially get some collecting ribs, and steak (no veggie burgers in Texas!), I in for native mollusks and crustaceans. turned opposite the column of folks heading Although I was able to get away to collect a out to observe rare birds to have a look in the bit on the Colorado River, which runs through stream (Barton Creek) that runs through the downtown Austin, and to see the Congress preserve. Unfortunately, I did not come Street Bridge bat colony (North America’s largest urban assemblage of Mexican free- (Continued on page 4) Crayfish News Volume 32 Issue 4: Page 1 President’s Corner Dear IAA Members: service that assigns the official Impact Factor Well, the holidays are upon us once (IF) to journals, and I know that many of you again. It seems like they arrive faster and are concerned about IFs for your publications. faster each year. At this time of year, I always We hope that after demonstrating a couple of seem to reflect on the past year, which seems years consistent publication, that ISI would to have just flown by, and realize, once again, then agree to index our journal. Time will tell. James W. Fetzner Jr., Ph.D. that I have not yet accomplished all those To this end, the IAA’s Manuscript IAA President (USA) things that I thought I would when the year Submission and Tracking website (http:// was brand new back in January. I guess I still iz.carnegiemnh.org/FCEditor/) is now continu- have a week or two left to get them done, but ously accepting manuscripts. You can submit I think we all know how that will turn out. :) a paper whenever you like, and it will enter The coming year will be a busy one for the queue for review and publication. James our association, as we start working on the Furse has accepted the position as Managing various tasks that will bring us closer to our Editor, and you will work with him to process goals on several fronts. First, Antonio Garza your manuscripts. What this means is that we de Yta was approved by the IAA Executive need a steady flow of high quality Board as the new Secretariat, taking over that manuscripts, and we also need to have position from Bill Daniels. Antonio will be members cite Freshwater Crayfish articles, so tasked with gathering information so that we that the impact factor of the journal can get the IAA incorporated as a Limited increases. In the end, we hope that these Liability Company and then seek non-profit changes will help us all, both in terms of [501(c)3] status from the U.S. Internal timely publication and aiding administrative Revenue Service. This is a big task, and reviews of our scientific publications. involves a LOT of paperwork and red tape, so I An added plus is that FC v17 has now appreciate Antonio’s willingness to undertake been published and is available (see pg. 3). I this job. We will keep you all informed on our would also ask that you please help to progress as we make this transition. support our association’s newsletter by submitting content and also remember to Our second major focus is on elevating H our society journal, Freshwater Crayfish. We renew your memberships. will quickly transition the journal from a James W. Fetzner Jr. publication schedule of once every two years IAA President (or so), to an annual publication. This should Section of Invertebrate Zoology make our journal more attractive to indexing Carnegie Museum of Natural History services, such as ISI Web of Science. ISI is the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA [email protected] The International Association of Astacology (IAA), founded in Officers: Hintertal, Austria in 1972, is dedicated to the study, conservation, and wise utilization of freshwater crayfish. Any individual or firm James W. Fetzner Jr., President, Section of Invertebrate Zoology, interested in furthering the study of astacology is eligible for Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pitts- membership. Service to members includes a quarterly newsletter burgh, PA 15213-4080. United States of America. (Crayfish News), a membership directory, biennial international E-Mail: [email protected] symposia and publication of the journal Freshwater Crayfish. Leopold Füreder, President-Elect, Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria. Secretariat: E-Mail: [email protected] The International Association of Astacology has a permanent secretariat managed by Antonio Garza de Yta. Address: IAA Susan B. Adams, Secretary, 26 County Road 223, Oxford, MS, Secretariat, Room 203, Swingle Hall, Department of Fisheries and 38655, United States of America. Allied Aquacultures, Auburn University, AL 36849-5419, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +1(334) 844-4786 / Fax: +1(334) 844-9208 James M. Furse, Immediate Past President, Griffith School of E-mail: [email protected] Environment, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Queensland Web page: http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/crayfish/IAA/ 4222, Australia. Webmaster: James W. Fetzner Jr. E-Mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Statements and opinions expressed in Crayfish News are not necessarily those of the International Association of IAA Board Members: Astacology. In addition to the IAA Officers and Past President, the board includes Jason Coughran (Australia), Arnie Eversole (USA), Tadashi Kawai (Japan), Steph Parkyn (Australia), Stephanie Peay This issue edited by James W. Fetzner Jr. (UK), Alastair Richardson (Tasmania) and Chris Taylor (USA). Crayfish News Volume 32 Issue 4: Page 2 ed to ensure that Freshwater Crayfish 18 meets its publica- IAA Related News tion deadline of September 2011, and the editorial and pro- Freshwater Crayfish 18 Submission Information duction team are dedicated to meeting this deadline. H Dear All, Cheers, As a result of the future directions forum held at the IAA18 symposium in Columbia Missouri (July 2010) and the James M. Furse subsequent vote by members in attendance, it was decided to Managing Editor implement a number of changes to the way the association’s Freshwater Crayfish 18 journal Freshwater Crayfish is produced and published. The Gold Coast, Queensland underlying motivation for these changes was to ensure timely AUSTRALIA and more frequent production of additional high quality vol- [email protected] umes of Freshwater Crayfish. The changes that were agreed upon by members include: 1) moving publication of Freshwater Crayfish to at least annu- al basis (i.e., one volume per year), 2) a dedicated/full-time Freshwater Crayfish v17, Now Available editor and page layout person (both paid positions), and 3) The next volume of the IAA’s journal, Freshwater Cray- when possible, limited print-runs/publication of the two cur- fish, has now been published and is available in both print and rently unpublished Freshwater Crayfish volumes 14 and 15. online versions. 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