Common yabby: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the common yabby lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Cherax destructor
Group	Crabs, lobsters & shrimps
Status	Vulnerable (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Oceania
Class	Crustacean
Order	Decapoda
Family	Parastacidae

Where does the common yabby live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the common yabby in 1 country or territory across Oceania. Wikidata lists it as endemic to Australia.

Australia

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the common yabby endangered?

The common yabby’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Vulnerable” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the common yabby?

The common yabby (Cherax destructor) is a crustacean in the order Decapoda and the family Parastacidae, genus Cherax. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the common yabby

The common yabby (Cherax destructor) is an Australian freshwater crustacean in the Parastacidae family. It is listed as a vulnerable species of crayfish by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), though the wild yabby populations remain strong, and have expanded into new habitats created by reservoirs and farm dams.

Other names frequently used for Cherax destructor include the blue yabby or cyan yabby. Its common name of "yabby" is also applied to many other Australian Cherax species of crustacean (as well as to marine ghost shrimp of the infraorder Thalassinidea).

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Common yabby (revision 1367239366), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q2711833 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).