Missing Link (crayfish)

[mike68]

Can anyone help? Last year I saw a link to a website which showed reported sitings of red signals. The sie used the latin name and diplayed a map. I have tried in vain to find this site any ideas?
Mike68

 

[Buckshot]

Hi Mike
Can't help witht the website but Signals are in the Thames around Oxford.
I know because I've eaten them!

Mark

 

[TimB]

This link may help, it lists all of the postcodes where the red signal can be kept without a license. This is due to the watercourses in the area's already containg signals. so would provide a good idea of which regions they can be found in...

http://www.defra.gov.uk/fish/freshwater/pdf/licreq.pdf

 

[spamel]

This must mean they haven't made it up to Sheffield and Barnsley area yet. I have my paperwork ready to go though, just in case the invader makes a big push North!

 

[demographic]

Couldn't help thinking of some kind of Piltdown crustacean when I saw a thread titled Missing ink (crayfish).

 

[Jodie]

I also thought it was going to be about closer evolutionary links between
people and crayfish

Anyway, I googled for red signal and - to cut a long story short - I think
the Latin name is spelled Pacifastacus leniusculus, if the red signal is
the same as the American one.

So... searching for leniusculus map brought this up, fingers crossed it's what
you were after: http://www.searchnbn.net/gridMap/gridMap.jsp?allDs=1&srchSpKey=NHMSYS0000377494
It was the third hit.

The home page is: http://www.searchnbn.net/index_homepage/index.jsp
"The National Biodiversity Network allows you to view distribution maps and
download UK wildlife data by using a variety of interactive tools. It is completely
dependent on the data providers."

 

[mike68]

Many thanks Jodie that was exactly the link I was searching for. Now all I need is time to get out and catch, Ithink I`ll be trying the washing tablet bag with bait inside method.
Mike68

 

[leon-b]

there are lots around me according to my map, need to make a trap like jons to catch um
leon