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References
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ Fernando Alvarez & José Luis Villalobos (1991). "A new genus and two new species of freshwater crabs from Mexico, Odontothelphusa toninae and Stygothelphusa lopezformenti (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pseudothelphusidae)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . 104 (2): 288–294.
- ↑ Peter K. L. Ng & Fernando Alvarez (2000). "Villalobosus, a replacement name for Stygothelphusa Alvarez and Villalobos, 1991 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pseudothelphusidae), preoccupied by Stygothelphusa Ng, 1898 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . 48 (2): 337.
- 1 2 Peter K. L. Ng & Martyn E. Y. Low (2010). "On the generic nomenclature of nine brachyuran names, with four replacement names and two nomina protecta (Crustacea: Decapoda)" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa . 2489: 34–46.
