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JEC. Current evidence indicates that C. sp. C, which occurs in the 

 adjacent Lumber River basin, is absent from the Waccamaw basin. 



Cape Fear River — The Cape Fear River, which begins in the 

 Piedmont Plateau and drains the largest watershed in the State, is 

 confined to North Carolina. Its major northern tributary, the 

 Haw River, heads in northwestern Guilford, southern Rockingham, 

 Orange, and Durham counties. A large southern tributary, the Deep 

 River, begins in southwestern Guilford and eastern Randolph counties, 

 flows southeast to northern Moore County, then turns east and north, 

 forming the northwestern boundary of Lee County. The Haw and 

 Deep rivers then merge in eastern Chatham County at the Lee County 

 line, forming the Cape Fear River. A central tributary, the Rocky 

 River, heads in northeastern Randolph County, flows southeast 

 through Chatham County, and joins the Deep River at the Lee County 

 line. A major central tributary in the Coastal Plain, the Black River, 

 drains Sampson County and the western part of Duplin County. 

 Another Coastal Plain tributary, the South River, divides Cumberland 

 and Bladen counties to the west from Sampson and Pender counties to 

 the east. The Black River merges with the South River in southern 

 Sampson County at the Bladen County line, and the South enters the 

 Cape Fear at the line between Pender and Bladen counties. The Cape 

 Fear then empties into the estuary at Wilmington, New Hanover 

 County. 



Until recently, the endemic North Carolina crayfish, C. catagius, 

 was known only from its type locality, burrows in a lawn at East 

 Whittington Street in the southeastern section of Greensboro, 

 Guilford County (Hobbs and Perkins 1967:145), which is in the Haw 

 River subdrainage. Other colonies of this primary burrower have now 

 been discovered, and efforts are being made to more accurately 

 determine its range (Davis 1992:29). Cambarus reduncus is restricted 

 to the Piedmont and Fall Line zone, while C. latimanus, C. diogenes, 

 and C. sp. C are found in both the Piedmont and Coastal Plain. Procambarus 

 a. acutus appears to be common throughout the system, even into its 

 headwaters. Faxon's (1914:367) report of "Cambarus blandingii" from 

 Reedy Creek, near Greensboro, must have been based on P. a. acutus, 

 which D. G. Cooper collected from Lake Reidsville and a small lake 

 south of Reidsville, Rockingham County, in the Haw River subdrainage. 

 Fallicambarus fodiens apparently has made inroads into the Piedmont 

 of the Cape Fear basin; Hobbs and Peters (1977:46) recorded it from 

 the Rocky River in Chatham County. Procambarus ancylus is known 

 from White and Singletary lakes, Bladen County (Hobbs 1958:167), 

 and has been collected from a borrow pit near Colly Creek (NCSM 



