Cherax snowden-New Crayfish Species Found in Indonesia Named after Edward Snowden

With its orange to greenishly orange motley tip, Cherax snowden has been long-confused with other members of the genus Cherax by the tradesmen who have been collecting them for ornamental purposes. “The first specimens of Cherax snowden were exported from the city of Sorong, Indonesia as Cherax sp. in 2006,” Lukhaup and co-authors wrote in a paper published in the journal ZooKeys. “Those crayfish have been captured by an unknown local collector from Kepala Burung for ornamental purposes in West Papua, Indonesia and imported to -READ MORE-http://www.sci-news.com/biology/science-cherax-snowden-crayfish-03169.html