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The Illinois Natural History Survey Crustacean Collection is
one of the largest state collections of crustaceans in North
America. A few specimens now housed in the collection were collected
in the late 1800's by Stephen A. Forbes. They formed the basis
for the first article to appear in the Survey's Bulletin "List
of Illinois Crustacea." More specimens were collected during
the first half of the 1900's in conjunction with the insect
surveys organized by Herbert H. Ross. A large part of the collection
comes from specimens collected from 1972 to 1982 for Lawrence
M. Page's "The Crayfishes and Shrimps (Decapoda) of Illinois"
published in 1985.
The collection contains primary types of six species. The collection
contains about 83,000 specimens (over 10,000 lots) of approximately
300 species in 26 families. Almost all are from North America.
About 50% of the collection is from Illinois; the remainder
is mostly from the southeastern United States. The best represented
groups are crayfishes, shrimps, scuds, slaters, and pill bugs.
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