re: Alabama >>>>> Louisiana for crawdads. Scientifically proven fact.

Just because you call it that or its known as something in a regional area doesn't make it the official name, bud. Google crawfish and tell me what it says at the top of the Wikipedia page, bud. Aight, bud?

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Just because you call it that or its known as something in a regional area doesn't make it the official name, bud. Google crawfish and tell me what it says at the top of the Wikipedia page, bud. Aight, bud?

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I can change that in a few seconds. Crawfish redirects to crayfish based on the coding. FTR the scientific name would be the given Latin name for each subspecies.

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That is not the "scientific proper name" you damn redneck

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Well then it's a good thing I didn't say that, because I don't speak Latin and don't know the scientific name. But if all the scientists are saying crayfish and of you look it up in your science textbook and it says crayfish, then it makes sense that is the proper name for them.

With the way the weather has been, should be a good crawfish season...hell prices are pretty damn low already. Saw $2lb in Picayune Saturday.

Alabama probably has the most diverse ecosystem in the nation. The delta has been described as the Amazon of North America.

That's true. I remember reading how Alabama has one of the highest numbers on earth (outside the amazon of course) of plant and animal life that are found nowhere else in the world. Lots of endangered plants and animals as well

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That doesn't make any cents.

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Irony. You have to love it.

If Louisiana made a poster for science classes it would also say "Crayfishes"

This isn't a bunch of coonasses boiling mudbugs for dinner, this is science.

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Well y'all say crayfish, so.....

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No we don't. Maybe the north Alabama Yankees but on the Gulf Coast it's crawfish. Not crayfish or crawdads

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The name "crayfish" comes from the Old French word escrevisse (Modern French écrevisse).[2] The word has been modified to "crayfish" by association with "fish" (folk etymology).[2] The largely American variant "crawfish" is similarly derived.[2]

Some kinds of crayfish are known locally as lobsters,[3] crawdads,[4] mudbugs,[4] and yabbies. In the Eastern United States, "crayfish" is more common in the north, while "crawdad" is heard more in central and southwestern regions, and "crawfish" further south, although there are considerable overlaps.[5]

The study of crayfish is called astacology

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Obviously everybody knows most people in Alabama say crawfish. We have crawfish boils. Except cool kids like me who say crawdads. But the official term is still still crayfish, which is why the poster says crayfish as do the scientists and professors interviewed in the article.

But I do find it interesting that Louisiana is the area that most heavily says crawfish even though the official term crayfish is directly derived from a French word. You'd think the Cajuns would stick with the closest thing to French.