Conservation of Imperiled Crayfish—Euastacus jagara (Decapoda: Parastacidae), a Highland Crayfish from the Main Range, South-Eastern Queensland, Australia

Conservation Status.—Euastacus jagara Morgan, 1988 (Fig. 1) is currently listed as ‘Endangered’ on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species (Crandall, 1996). A recent assessment and revision of the conservation status of the genus Euastacus (the ‘spiny crayfish’) considered that a listing of ‘Critically Endangered’ is now appropriate under current IUCN criteria (Coughran and Furse, 2010; Furse and Coughran, in press a, b, c). The conservation assessment noted that further information is urgently required on the species, in order to both refine its conservation status and enable specific conservation and management programs. The species is not currently listed under any State or Federal conservation legislation.