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not available (NCSM C-2194), 25 Sep 1984, ALB, JEC. Transylvania 

 Co.— (2) French Broad R at River Mile (RM) 195.8 along Wilson Rd 

 at head Elm Bend; no other data available, M. Ford; (3) French 

 Broad R at mouth Williamston Crk (RM 192.8) at US 276; 1 9 

 (NCSM C-1686), 23 Jun 1977, MF; (4) West Fk French Broad R near 

 jet SR 1309 & 1312, ca. 4.2 air mi (6.7 air km) NW Rosman; 1 9 

 (NCSM C-2221), 18 Oct 1984, V. Schneider; (5) Davidson R at US 

 276, 0.2 rd mi (0.3 rd km) SE of FSR to Pisgah Forest National Fish 

 Hatchery, ca. 4.3 air mi (6.9 air km) NNW cntr Brevard; 1 9, 13 Aug 

 1993, J. Weems. 



Orconectes {Crockerinus) erichsonianus (Faxon) 

 Hobbs (1981:263) listed this species and C. latimanus as 

 associates of C. hiwasseensis at a locality in the Hiwassee River 

 system of North Carolina. This is the only published record for O. 

 erichsonianus in North Carolina. Hobbs (in litt.) said, "the locality is 

 1.6 miles west of the junction of U. S. Hwy. 64 on State Route 60, 

 Cherokee County — Nottely River, collected on June 12, 1960, by K. 

 W. Simonds . . . ." He added, "the whereabouts of the specimens is 

 a puzzle. They were never catalogued and perhaps are still shelved 

 with the uncatalogued material here [at the U. S. National Museum 

 of Natural History]." 



On 21 July 1984, we collected 47 crayfish at a site that must 

 have been the same as, or very close to, the one in question — the 

 Nottely River at NC 60, 2 air mi (3.2 air km) SSW of Ranger. 

 This collection contained only C. b. bartonii, C. hiwasseensis, and 

 an unidentified Cambarus. Collections that we made on several 

 occasions elsewhere in the Hiwassee River basin in Cherokee and 

 Clay counties also failed to yield any Orconectes, and the species is 

 not known from this system in Georgia (Hobbs 1981:21, 287). Hobbs 

 later (1989:35, 84, 89) did not include North Carolina in the general 

 range of O. erichsonianus, and we are convinced that the species does 

 not occur here. It could have been extirpated from the State, but its 

 historic range just west of North Carolina is limited to the Appalachian 

 Plateau and the Ridge and Valley physiographic provinces, no 

 elements of which are found in North Carolina. 



Orconectes {Crockerinus) virginiensis Hobbs 

 This is one of only two species of Orconectes known to occur 

 on the Atlantic versant in North Carolina, where it reaches the southern 

 limits of its range. It is also the only member of subgenus Crockerinus 



