This article is about a scientific family of crabs. For the mythological Greek nymphs, see Potamide.
Potamidae
Temporal range: Paleocene_recent [1]
Potamon fluviatile
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Suborder:
Pleocyemata
Infraorder:
Brachyura
Superfamily:
Potamoidea
Family:
Potamidae Ortmann, 1896
Subfamilies
Potaminae
Potamiscinae
Potamidae is a family of freshwater crabs. It includes more than 650 species and nearly 100 genera, which are placed into two subfamilies: Potaminae and Potamiscinae.[2]
^"Braggs-Pine Barren-Beds 7-9 (Paleocene of the United States)". PBDB.
^Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.
Potamidae is a family of freshwater crabs. It includes more than 650 species and nearly 100 genera, which are placed into two subfamilies: Potaminae and...
Trichodactylidae (Central America and South America) Superfamily Potamoidea Potamidae (Mediterranean Basin and Asia) Potamonautidae (Africa, including Madagascar)...
not need access to water to breed. Many crabs belonging to the family Potamidae, which contains mostly freshwater crabs, have developed a semiterrestrial...
endemism and conservation of the freshwater crabs of China (Brachyura: Potamidae and Gecarcinucidae)". Integrative Zoology. 6 (1): 45–55. doi:10.1111/j...
Monocentropus balfouri) and three species of freshwater crabs in the Potamidae (Socotra pseudocardisoma and two species in Socotrapotamon). As with many...
biogeography of East Asian freshwater crab genus Nanhaipotamon (Decapoda: Potamidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 58 (3): 427–438. doi:10.1016/j...
genus "Potamon" and allies in Indochina (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 16: 273–308. Ruth Jesse,...
Freshwater Crab Fauna (Crustacea, Brachyura) of the Philippines. 1. The Family Potamidae Ortmann, 1896. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series...
"Revision of the genus Insulamon Ng & Takeda, 1992 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Potamidae) with description of four new species" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology...
biogeography of the freshwater crab genus Johora (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae) from the Malay Peninsula, and the origins of its insular fauna". Zoologica...
Himalayapotamon atkinsonianum is a species of freshwater crab in the family Potamidae. It is found in Nepal and parts of Northeastern India. It can be distinguished...
from China, Phasmon typhlops gen. nov. et sp. nov. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Potamidae), diverged at the beginning of the Late Miocene". ZooKeys (1008): 1–15...
(2021). "Geothelphusa boreas, A New Montane Freshwater Crab (Crustacea: Potamidae: Geothelphusa) from northeastern Taiwan, and the Identity of G. hirsuta...
(2014). "A new species of Isolapotamon Bott, 1968 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamidae) from Mindanao, with notes on the Philippine Isolapotamon species". In...
Mediterranean freshwater crab from the Maltese Islands (Crustacea, Decapoda, Potamidae)" (PDF). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. 91 B: 215–224...
DCJ (2001) Journal of Crustacean Biology 21(1): 275-287. Media related to Potamidae at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Tiwaripotamon at Wikispecies...
home to more than 250 different species of freshwater crabs (families Potamidae and Gecarcinucidae), many of them endemics. It is thus the country with...
of the Waterfall Crabs of the Genus Demanietta (Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae)". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 19 (3): 530–555. doi:10.2307/1549261...
Potamoidea is a superfamily of freshwater crabs, comprising the two families Potamidae and Potamonautidae. Two previously recognised families, Deckeniidae and...
"Distribution of Nanhaipotamon hongkongense (Shen, 1940) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae), a freshwater crab endemic to Hong Kong". Journal of Threatened Taxa...
Brandis, D. 2000. A new species of freshwater crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae) from Socotra Island and description of Socotrapotamon n. gen. Fauna of...
"A new genus and new species of freshwater crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae Ortmann, 1896) from Yunnan Province, China". Zootaxa. 4286 (2): 241. doi:10...
freshwater crab genus Hainanpotamon Dai, 1995 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae: Potamiscinae), with a redescription of Potamon (Potamon) orientale (Parisi...
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