Insulamon palawanense

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Potamoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Eucarida Ordo: Decapoda Subordo: Pleocyemata Infraordo: Brachyura Sectio: Eubrachyura Subsectio: Heterotremata Superfamilia: Potamoidea

Superfamilia: Potamidae
Subfamilia: Potamiscinae
Genus: Insulamon
Species: Insulamon palawanense

Name

Insulamon palawanense Freitag, 2012

Holotype: NMCR-39012, male (35.1 by 26.1 mm, dissected), Palawan, Roxas, Dumarao; downstream New Rizal Falls, secondary forest, boulders, sand, CPOM, c. 120 m asl, 10° 28' 10" N, 119° 19' 52" E (135), coll. H. Freitag, 5 Dec. 1994.

Type locality: Barangay [= municipal district] Dumarao, Roxas Municipality, Palawan Island, Philippines.

References

Hendrik Freitag. 2012: Revision of the genus Insulamon Ng & Takeda, 1992 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Potamidae) with description of four new species. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 60(1): 37–55. pdf.
Yeo, D.C.J., P.K.L. Ng, N. Cumberlidge, C. Magalhães, S.R. Daniels & M.R. Campos, 2008: Global diversity of crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia, 595: 275–286.