. Maroon abandon 17 comes from the noun maroon. Marron is a name given to two closely related species of crayfish in western australia. The most widely accepted derivation of this is that it was based on spanish cima summit a descendant of latin cyma sprout and that it thus denotes etymologically one who lives on the mountain tops.

Formerly considered a single species it is now recognised as comprising two species the critically endangered cherax tenuimanus and the species which is outcompeting it cherax cainii.