A Dictionary of Non-Scientific Names of Freshwater Crayfishes ...

NUMBER 38 77
wangar PARASTACIDAE, "crayfish," probably =
Euastacus sp. [Australia: New South Wales; Hill End
(probably = Wiradjuri Aboriginal tribe of Tindale,
1974:201 (147°30'E x 33°50'S))] Bench of Magistrates
at Bathurst, in Curr, 1887(111):376, Sta. 190.
See ingar.
warkoju PARASTACIDAE, possibly = Cherax
wasselli. [Australia: Queensland; Bloomfield Valley
(possible = Jungkurara Aboriginal tribe of Tindale,
1974:172 (146°25'E x 16°0'S))] Mathew, 1899:230-
231.
Warragul burrowing crayfish PARASTACIDAE,
Engaeus sternalis. [Australia: Victoria; Warragul]
Horwitz, 1990:94.
weechong PARASTACIDAE, "lobster," probably =
Euastacus sp. [Australia: Victoria; Hopkins River
(possibly = Tjapwurong Aboriginal tribe of Tindale,
1974:707-9 (142°40'E x 37°30'S))] Curr, 1887(111):
494, Sta. 207k. See youri.
weechuk PARASTACIDAE, probably = Cherax
destructor, Engaeus sp. and/or Geocharax sp. [Australia:
Victoria; "Victorian Region groups," Mortlake
dialect (probably = Kirrae Aboriginal tribe of Tindale,
1974:205 (143°5'Ex 38° 10'S))] Mathew, 1899:230-
231.
wegiga PARASTACIDAE, "crayfish," probably =
Cherax destructor. [Australia: New South Wales;
Darling Aboriginal tribes, 50 miles below Bourke on
the Darling River (probably = Ngemba Aboriginal tribe
(146°5'E x 30°30'S) of Tindale, 1974:198)] Wilson
and Henderson, in Curr, vol. 11:224, Sta. 76.
wsra?ja'> [Orthography employed by Olmsted]
ASTACIDAE, probably Pacifastacus sp. [U.S.,
western: Atsugewi Indians] Olmsted, 1984:175. See
wura?ja?a.
white clawed crayfish ASTACIDAE Austropotamobius
pallipes. [English] Holdich and Lowery, 1988:
498.
white footed crayfish ASTACIDAE Austropotamobius
pallipes. [English] Cherry, 1992:19.
(Ortmannicus) zonangulus. [U.S., along the lower Gulf
of Mexico slope from Texas to Alabama] Hobbs,
H.H., Jr., and Fitzpatrick, J.F., Jr., personal communications,
inform me that this name has been wrongly
applied to Procambarus (Ortmannicus) acutus, and
should refer only to Procambarus (Ortmannicus) zonangulus.
white yabby PARASTACIDAE, refers to a local
Victorian grey-white colored variant of the yabby, q.v.
[Australia: Victoria; English and derivative] Olszewski,
1980:16.
wiija PARASTACIDAE, "crayfish," probably =
Cherax destructor, Engaeus sp., Euastacus sp., and/or
Geocharax sp. [Australia: Victoria; Hopkins River
(possibly = Tjapwurong Aboriginal tribe of Tindale,
1974:707-9 (142°40'E x 37°30'S))] Curr, 1887(111):
429, Sta. 197. Curr, 1887(111):492, Sta. 207j. See
yaram.
winga PARASTACIDAE, "lobster," possibly =
Cherax destructor. [Australia: New South Wales;
Brewarrina and Barwan rivers, Wailwun Aboriginal
tribe (= Weilwan Aboriginal tribe of Tindale, 1974:200
(147°40'E x 30°30'S))] Bench of Magistrates at
Brewarrina, in Curr, 1887(111):330, Sta. 183. See
thumal.
wirra PARASTACIDAE, "lobster," probably =
Euastacus sp. [Australia: New South Wales; Hawkesbury
River and Broken Bay (probably = Daruk Aboriginal
tribe of Tindale, 1974:193 (150°35'Ex 33°35'S))]
Tuckerman, in Curr, 1887(111):358, Sta. 189. See
morramma.
wolkoo PARASTACIDAE, "lobster," probably =
Cherax destructor. [Australia: South Australia; Mt.
Remarkable, Doora Aboriginal tribe (probably =
Nukunu Aboriginal tribe of Tindale, 1974:216 (138°-
10'E x 32°55'S))] Valentine, in Curr, 1886(11): 138,
Sta. 65.
wolona PARASTACIDAE, "crayfish," probably =
Cherax destructor and/or Euastacus sp. [Australia:
Victoria; Kulkyne (probably Latjilatji Aboriginal tribe
of Tindale, 1974:206, (141°45'Ex 34°40'S))] Curr,
1887(III):454, Sta. 203.
white river crawfish CAMBARIDAE, Procambarus wolonuk PARASTACIDAE, "crayfish," probably =