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Potamidae

İpek, Mehmet;Özbek, Murat

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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.

Species

freshwater crabs

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassMalacostraca
  4. OrderDecapoda
  5. FamilyPotamidae
Habitatfreshwater
Observations recorded20,137

I Potamidi (Potamidae Ortmann, 1896) sono una famiglia di granchi di acqua dolce.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
76
With media
3
Family
Potamidae
Collections
CAS, YPM, FMNH, USNM, UF
Recorded in
Burma [Union Of Myanmar], China, Philippines, Japan, Perú, Lebanon, Dominica, Thailand

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Encyclopedic overview

4 sections
Contents
  • Subfamily Potaminae
  • Subfamily Potamiscinae
  • References
  • External links

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.

==Subfamily Potaminae== The Potaminae Ortmann, 1896 are distributed around the Mediterranean Sea, on Socotra and eastwards to Northern India. Acanthopotamon Kemp, 1918 Alcomon Yeo & Ng, 2007 Himalayapotamon Pretzmann, 1966 Lobothelphusa Bouvier, 1917 Paratelphusula Alcock, 1909 Potamon Savigny, 1816 Socotra Cumberlidge & Wranik, 2002 Socotrapotamon Apel & Brandis, 2000

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Potamidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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