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Prehistoric Crayfish
Prehistoric Crayfish
Masiakasaurus dinosaur and Astacoides crayfish, Madagascar, 72 to 66 million years ago. Art by P.Hamr
Dwarf Jurrassic crocodile and crayfish ancestor Eryma (misspelled). Harz mountains, Germany, by J.Knuppe
Eryma mandelslohi (Permian–Cretaceous) Stuttgart Musseum of Natural History
Jurassic Astacus Crayfish Fossil from Liaoning, China.
Crayfish, Eocene , about 50 million years ago. Green River Formation, Wyoming. USA.
Austropotamobius crayfish, early Cretaceaous wetland, Las Hoyas, Spain.
Triassic crayfish - by D. Henderson, Paleoartist.
Ancient Crayfish
Ancient Crayfish
Gilded copper crayfish ornament from the Moche culture of Peru, dating approximately to the 6th–7th century.
Medieval Crayfish
Medieval Crayfish
Dialogus creaturum moralizatus, 1483, the very first book printed in Sweden. The text teaches the reader a moral in which the crayfish avoids conflict (by flipping backwards) but when confronted again, it cuts it in half. "Avoid conflict but when pushed, defend yourself!"
Willem Vrelant's workshop, 1460s
marginalia/ bestiary 14th or 15th century.
Crayfish feast, mid 1400 an anonymous manuscript in the Austrian National Library in Vienna.
Exemplum de Tribus Latronibus,” 1450, Trier, Germany
Salone dei Mesi in Ferrara, by Cosimo Tura 1460s.
S. Munster 1522
Parmigano 1503-1540.
Rouen or Orléans, last quarter 15century
Jan Zizka famous Czech medieval military leader 1360-1424 (art M.Ales). Zizka was the inventor of the armoured vehicle and the howitzer!
Jan Zizka's family crest features crayfish.
Unknown artist around 1560.
Reneissance & Early Modern Crayfish
Reneissance & Early Modern Crayfish
J. Zahn, 1696, Astacus similus in the Marine Fish Catalog
Astacus crayfish. 1600s, albums of crustaceans and fish commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II.
An illustration of crustaceans from the 17th-century natural history book Historiae Naturalis De Exanguibus Aquaticis Libri IV by Johannes Jonston, featuring detailed etchings of a lobster (top) and two crayfish (botom is the same crayfsih but ventral).
"Diana and Her Nymphs Fishing ( by the Flemish Baroque painter Jan Brueghel the Elder in collaboration with Hendrick van Balen around 1621–1625.
"Noble crayfish" Baldner (1666).
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, “Sur les diverses reproductions qui se font dans les Ecrevisses …,” Histoire de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, avec les Memoires … année 1712. "
1800s & Victorian Crayfish
1800s & Victorian Crayfish
Crayfish at Longchamps by Delacroxi, 1822
Prodromus of Zoology Victoria Euastacus (Australia ) 1878-1890.
Murray Spiny Crayfish, Ludwig Becker 1860 - 1861 (Australia,)
Astacoides crayfish from Madagascar Archives du Muséum d'HistoireNaturelle, Paris, 1841 (France)
F.E. Guerin-Meneville Dictionnaire Pittoresque d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 1836-1839.
Astacopsis tricornis by William Buelow Gould, Tasmanian convict: The Sketchbook of Fishes 1832 . Macquarie Harbour Penal colony. First depiction of a Tasmanian freshwater crayfish.
James Audubon White Ibis & burrowing crayfish - Lacunicambarus ? (USA) 1829
Johann Heinrich (1735–1813)
Histoire naturelle P. A. Latreille 1796-1818.
Australian crayfish including the Tasmanian Astacopsis (Astacus) franklinii , late 19th century
early 1900s
early 1900s
Giant Crayfish (actually Astacopsis gouldi) in A Naturalist in Tasmania by G. Smith 1909
From The Freshwater and land Crayfishes of Australia. Ellen Clark. Mem. Nat. Mus. Vict., X, 1936.
Giant Tasmanian Crayfish (Astacopsis gouldi) 1942.
....perhaps the largest crayfish ever photographed, Tasmania.
CRAWFISHING IN LOUISIANA: Dating back to the native Americans and the early European settlers, the crawfish has been and inherent part of Louisiana culture. Abundant in the swamps and marshes across south Louisiana, crawfish were a favorite food of early residents. Centuries later, crawfish season in Louisiana is still exciting, with crawfish boils and backyard parties a time-honored tradition. Commercial sales of crawfish in Louisiana began in the late 1800s. At that time, crawfish were harvested from natural waters through- out the southern region of the state. The first record of a commercial crawfish harvest in the United States was in 1880 (from Crawfish.org).
The first rice/crawfish double crop farm in Judice that started in 1949. from the 2014 book "Louisiana Crawfish" by Sam Irwin.
Earl Becnel displays his prize catch, crawfish. (from NOLA.com)
CRAyFISHING IN SWEDEN: Crayfishing in Sweden has evolved from a 16th-century royal delicacy to a, popular, regulated August tradition known as kräftskiva (crayfish party). Crayfish were considered a luxury dish for the elite as early as the 16th century, with King Eric XIV known to have them cultivated. Consumption spread to the general population by the late 19th century but overfishing in the early 1900s, followed by the 1907 arrival of plague-carrying non-native species, shifted the culture from abundant native fishing to strict, season-based, and imports.
C. Larson, the-crayfish-season-opens-1897: "The crayfish season-opens".
Swedish ani prohibition poster : "NO! Crayfish require these beverages! You must forgo crayfish unless you vote NO on the 27th August"! A . Engstrom 1922 .
Crayfish Party dress design for or baroness Beck-Friis by A . Engstrom , 1936.
Swedes in 1950s crayfishing in Smaland 1950s.
from the book "Crayfish Rapsody" by r. P. Gorman (Gruppen pub. )
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