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Recent studies have reported that crustacean age determination is possible. We applied a direct ageing method (i.e. transverse cross sectioning of gastric ossicles) to a subtropical freshwater crayfish ( Cherax quadricarinatus ) sourced from an aquaculture population. Growth mark periodicity and the potential for chronological depositions were investigated by staining  C .  quadricarinatus  with calcein and examining their ossicles a year later. Pterocardiac ossicles were superior to other ageing structures (i.e. other ossicles and eyestalks) and produced repeatable between-reader counts (87% were corroborated and 13% varied by ±1).  C .  quadricarinatus  size-at-age data (for an aquaculture population) was described by a von Bertalanffy growth equation ( L    ∞   = 32 mm occipital carapace length;  K  = 0.64;  t   0  = –0.18; R 2  = 0.81). Ossicular growth marks did not correspond to moult history. The calcein stain was retained over an annual cycle comprising multiple moults, demonstrating that pterocardiac ossicles retain chronological information. The maximum age (3+) corroborated other indirectly-obtained longevity estimates for  C .  quadricarinatus . Multiple lines of evidence indicate that the growth marks in  C .  quadricarinatus  ossicles are probably deposited annually during winter. The ability to extract age information from subtropical decapods provides substantial opportunities for advancing fisheries and conservation research globally, but further research is needed to provide a definitive validation and elucidate the mechanism governing the accrual of ossicular growth marks.

Direct Age Determination of a Subtropical Freshwater Crayfish (Redclaw, Cherax quadricarinatus) Using Ossicular Growth Marks