Recently the Nature Conservancy Staff in Fayetteville received a call, from a young man in Yellville, concerning an unusual crawfish that he had found in a creek. Mike Slay, Karst Program for the Conservancy collected the crawfish to determine it's species. I had the opportunity to photograph the crawfish Friday, November 8, 2008. We had the crawfish in a small aquarium with a black plastic background to keep him close to the glass. The cave crawfish is a male and Mike will use DNA analyses to determine if it is a known species or a new type of cave crawfish. The cave crawfish has no pigment or eyes. It was pretty cool to have the opportunity to take his picture.