An illustrated key to the Bulgarian freshwater crayfish species of family Astacidae (Crustacea: Decapoda)

A key for the 3 crayfish species of the family Astacidae (Crustacea, Decapoda) found in Bulgaria: Astacus leptodactylus Eschscholtz, 1823; Astacus astacus (Linnaeus, 1758) and Austropotamobius torrentium (Schrank, 1803) is presented. More important identification characters are illustrated with original photographs