Pseudothelphusidae

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Pseudothelphusidae
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
(unranked): Reptantia
Infraorder: Brachyura
Section: Eubrachyura
Subsection: Heterotremata
Superfamily: Pseudothelphusoidea
Ortmann, 1893  [1]
Family: Pseudothelphusidae
Ortmann, 1893  [1]

Pseudothelphusidae is a family of freshwater crabs found chiefly in mountain streams in the Neotropics. [2] They are believed to have originated in the Greater Antilles and then crossed to Central America via a Pliocene land bridge. [2] Some species of this family are troglobitic.

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Parasitology

Pseudothelpshusids are of significance to humans because many species are secondary hosts for lung flukes of the genus Paragonimus . [3] Predators of pseuthelphusid crabs include the yellow-spotted river turtle and the tufted capuchin. [3]

Taxonomy

The following subfamilies and genera are recognised: [4] [5]

GuinotinaePretzmann, 1971

HypolobocerinaePretzmann, 1971

KingsleyinaeBott, 1970

PotamocarcininaeOrtmann, 1897

PseudothelphusinaeOrtmann, 1893

PtychophallinaeÁlvarez, Ojeda, Souza-Carvalho, Villalobos, Magalhães, Wehrtmann & Mantelatto, 2020

RaddausinaeÁlvarez, Ojeda, Souza-Carvalho, Villalobos, Magalhães, Wehrtmann & Mantelatto, 2020

StrengerianinaeRodríguez, 1982

References

  1. 1 2 "Pseudothelphusidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved October 7, 2010.
  2. 1 2 H. J. Dumont (1982). "Book review: Les crabes d'eau douce d'Amerique by G. Rodriguez". Hydrobiologia . 94 (3): 294. doi:10.1007/BF00016411.
  3. 1 2 Gilberto Rodríguez & Célio Magalhães (2005). "Recent advances in the biology of the Neotropical freshwater crab family Pseudothelphusidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)" (PDF). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia . 22 (2): 354–365. doi: 10.1590/S0101-81752005000200009 .
  4. ↑ Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . 17: 1–286.
  5. ↑ Boyko, Christopher B. (23 August 2022). "Pseudothelphusidae Ortmann, 1893". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 8 March 2025.


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