River Crayfish Print
River Crayfish Print
Size
12 × 18 in overall, unframed. The plate sits on an ivory sheet with a border of about an inch, so it fits a standard ready-made frame of the same size, with or without a mat.
Printed on 189 g/m² (10.3 mil) enhanced matte paper.
Want it ready to hang? The same plate comes framed in Black or Red Oak.
A crayfish from Havre de Grace, Maryland, drawn at one and a half times life size.
The print
- The full plate with its name, legend and credits, re-rendered from the source scan at print size, not enlarged from a shirt file.
- Restored from a library scan of the original book; nothing redrawn.
- Keep out of direct sunlight; a frame with glass or acrylic keeps it clean.
Shipping & production
Each print is printed for you after you order, usually within 2–5 business days, and ships on its own (separate from any shirts or framed prints in the same order). Shipping is shown at checkout before you pay.
Returns
If your print arrives damaged or misprinted, contact us within 30 days of delivery with a photo and we'll send a replacement or a refund. Because every print is made to order, we can't accept returns for a change of mind.
Plate 026
From the book
- Species
- Faxonius limosus
- As named in the book
- The River Cray-fish; Cambarus affinis Erichson.
- Artist
- H. L. Todd
- Book
- The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, Sec. I, pl. 272, 1884
“They are usually found resting under flat stones, well out from the banks of the stream.”
Then and now
Now called the spinycheek crayfish, after two older names.
Field notes
Ninety of them went to Europe in 1890. It didn't go well for Europe.
H. L. Todd drew this crayfish at one and a half times life size from a specimen taken at Havre de Grace, Maryland, where the Susquehanna meets the Chesapeake. The book's observer found them "resting under flat stones, well out from the banks of the stream."
Todd's Cambarus affinis is today's spinycheek crayfish, native to the Atlantic slope of eastern North America. In 1890 about ninety of them were released into a pond in Pomerania, in what is now Poland, to replace native crayfish that disease had wiped out.
They brought the disease with them. The spinycheek carries crayfish plague, which it tolerates and European crayfish don't. It has spread across Europe and is now listed as an invasive species of EU concern: a small Maryland crayfish with a long reach.