Potamidae

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Potamidae
Temporal range: Paleocene-recent [1]
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Potamon fluviatile
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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]

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Subfamily Potaminae

The PotaminaeOrtmann, 1896 are distributed around the Mediterranean Sea, on Socotra and eastwards to Northern India.

Subfamily Potamiscinae

The PotamiscinaeBott, 1970 are found in East Asia and Southeast Asia. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Braggs-Pine Barren-Beds 7-9 (Paleocene of the United States)". PBDB.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Darren C. J. Yeo & Peter L. K. Ng (2004). "Recognition of two subfamilies in the Potamidae Ortmann, 1896 (Brachyura, Potamidae) with a note on the genus Potamon Savigny, 1816". Crustaceana . 76 (10): 1219–1235. doi:10.1163/156854003773123456.
  4. 1 2 Huang, Chao (2018). "Revision of Yarepotamon Dai & Türkay, 1997 (Brachyura: Potamidae), freshwater crabs endemic to southern China, with descriptions of two new genera and four new species". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 38 (2): 173–189. doi:10.1093/jcbiol/rux120.
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