Seychellum

Seychellum alluaudi

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: Deckeniinae
Genus: Seychellum
S. alluaudi – S. mahefregate – S. silhouette –

Name

Seychellum Ng, Števčić, & Pretzmann, 1995

Type species: Deckenia alluaudi A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1893

References

• Cumberlidge, N. & Daniels, S.R. 2014. Recognition of two new species of freshwater crabs from the Seychelles based on molecular evidence (Potamoidea: Potamonautidae). Invertebrate systematics, 28(1): 17–31. DOI: 10.1071/IS13017 . Reference page. 
• Ng, P.K.L., Števčić, Z., and Pretzmann, G. (1995). A revision of the family Deckeniidae Ortmann, 1897 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura:Potamoidea), with description of a new genus (Gecarcinucoidea, Gecarcinucidae) from the Seychelles, Indian Ocean. Journal of Natural History 29: 581–600. DOI: 10.1080/00222939500770201 .
• Savel R. Daniels 2011. Reconstructing the colonisation and diversification history of the endemic freshwater crab (Seychellum alluaudi) in the granitic and volcanic Seychelles Archipelago. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 61(2): 534–542. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.07.015. PMID 21824522.