Potamonautes raybouldi

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Potamonautes raybouldi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Potamonautidae
Genus: Potamonautes
Species:
P. raybouldi
Binomial name
Potamonautes raybouldi
Cumberlidge & Vannini, 2004

Potamonautes raybouldi is a species of freshwater crab. It lives in water-filled tree holes in forests in the eastern Usambara Mountains of Tanzania and the Shimba Hills in Kenya. [1] It is threatened by deforestation resulting from the expansion of the human population, and is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List. [1] The species was described in 2004, and named after Professor John N. Raybould of the University of Bristol, who collected the first specimens of the species. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Cumberlidge, N. (2008). "Potamonautes raybouldi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2008: e.T44539A10916902. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T44539A10916902.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. Neil Cumberlidge & Marco Vannini (2004). "Ecology and taxonomy of a tree-living freshwater crab (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae) from Kenya and Tanzania, East Africa" (PDF). Journal of Natural History . 38 (6): 681–693. doi:10.1080/0022293021000041716. S2CID   84539824. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-08-02.