Potamonautinae

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

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., Schubart, C.D., von Rintelen, T., Tamesse, J.L. & Cumberlidge, N. 2017. 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. 2017. 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.
Mvogo Ndongo, P.A., 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.
Mvogo Ndongo, P.A., von Rintelen, T., Clark, P.F., Shahdadi, A., Tchietchui, C.R. & Cumberlidge, N. 2022. Phylogenetic relationships among the species of the Cameroonian endemic freshwater crab genus Louisea Cumberlidge, 1994 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Potamonautidae), with notes on intraspecific morphological variation within two threatened species. Zookeys 1122ː 125–143. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1122.85791 Reference page.
Mvogo Ndongo, P.A., 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.