What animal classification group is the crayfish in?
The lineage of crayfish as follows: Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Arthropoda, Subphylum Crustacea, Class Malacostraca, Order Decapoda. The living crayfish of the world are distributed into 3 different families, Astacidae, Parastacidae, and Cambaridae. Cambaridae contains by far the largest number of species, with at least 300 hundred.