Potamonautinae

Liberonautes nimba

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 Subphylum: Crustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Eucarida Ordo: Decapoda Subordo: Pleocyemata Infraordo: Brachyura Sectio: Eubrachyura Subsectio: Heterotremata Superfamilia: Potamoidea

Familia: Potamonautidae
Subfamilia: Potamonautinae
Genera: Erimetopus – Liberonautes – Louisea – Platythelphusa – Potamonautes – Potamonemus – Sudanonautes

Name

• Potamonautinae Bott, 1970

References

• Bott, R. 1970. Betrachtungen über entwicklungsgeschichte und Verbreitung der Süsswasserkrabben nach der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums in Genf/Schweiz. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 77(2): 327–344. Reference page. 
• Cumberlidge, N. & P.F. Clark, 2010: Two new species of freshwater crabs from Mount Elgon, East Africa (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae) and a re-diagnosis of Potamonautes niloticus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) with notes on their natural history and onchocerciasis. Journal of NaturalHistory 44 (29-30): 1807-1829. DOI: 10.1080/00222931003678792. Abstract: [1].
• Mvogo Ndongo, P.A.M., Schubart, C.D., von Rintelen, T., Tamesse, J.L. & Cumberlidge, N. 2017a. Morphological and molecular evidence for a new species of freshwater crab of the genus Sudanonautes Bott, 1955 (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae) from Cameroon, with notes on its ecology. Zootaxa 4242(1): 161–173. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4242.1.8. Reference page. 
• Mvogo Ndongo, P.A., Cumberlidge, N., Poettinger, T.S., von Rintelen, T., Tamesse, J.L. & Schubart, C.D. 2017b. Molecular evidence for the assignment of the Cameroonian freshwater crab genus Louisea Cumberlidge, 1994, to the Afrotropical subfamily Potamonautinae Bott, 1970 (Crustacea: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae). Zootaxa 4286(3): 439–444. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.3.12. Reference page. 
• Ndongo, P.A.M., von Rintelen, T., Albrecht, C., Tamesse, J.L. & Cumberlidge, N. 2018. Lost species in Cameroon: rediscovery of the endangered freshwater crab, Louisea balssi (Bott, 1959) (Brachyura: Potamonautidae), with notes on its ecology and conservation. Zootaxa 4394(3): 407–416. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.3.6 Reference page. 
• Ndongo, P.A.M., von Rintelen, T. & Cumberlidge, N. 2019. Taxonomic revision of the endemic Cameroonian freshwater crab genus Louisea Cumberlidge, 1994 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamonautidae), with descriptions of two new species from Nkongsamba and Yabassi. ZooKeys, 881: 135–164. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.881.36744 Reference page.