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#1    Althalus

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Posted 20 February 2003 - 02:36 PM

                                                LONDON (Reuters) - A mysterious self-cloning female crayfish, popular with German aquarium owners, could pose a threat to native European species if it were released into the wild, scientists say.

The marbled crayfish, called Marmorkrebs, is probably related to a North American species although scientists at Humboldt University in Berlin admit they do not know exactly where it originated.


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