Question

How long can a crawfish live out of the water?

Answer 1

Crawfish which is also known as Crayfish or mudbug is an insect and not a fish and it belongs to the subphylum crustacea and phylum Arthropoda.

Complete answer:
1.Mostly the crawfish live in freshwater and sometimes they are also present in flooded fields of different crops like paddy fields, forest wetlands, ditches, etc. The crawfish cannot survive in polluted water.
2.Crawfish uses gills for breathing and exchange of gases and the gills in crawfish appear like feathers and due to the presence of such gills the crawfish can easily live out of water for some days if the gills are moist.
Hence a crawfish can live for some days out of water.

The body of crawfish is divided into two parts that are abdomen and cephalothorax and the body of crawfish is made up of a total of 20 segments and appendages are present in all of the segments and their legs have claws.
The scientific classification of the crawfish can be given as kingdom Animalia, phylum Arthropoda, subphylum Crustacea, class Malacostraca, order Decapoda, suborder pleocyemata, infraorder astacidea, and superfamily astacoidea.

Note: 1.The study of crayfish is known as astacology.
2.Crawfish are edible and it is used as food in many parts of the world and mainly the tail part is used to make soup. Also, the claws and meat of crawfish are edible.
3.There are three families of crawfish that are Astacidae, cambaridae, and parastacidae.