Daipotamon minos
| Daipotamon minos | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Potamidae |
| Genus: | Daipotamon |
| Species: | D. minos |
| Binomial name | |
| Daipotamon minos (Ng & Trontelj, 1996) | |
Daipotamon minos is a cavernicolous freshwater crab species found in a single karstic cave in southern Guizhou[2] and the only species of the genus Daipotamon.
Range and habitat
D. minos is found inside a limestone cave near La Tai village in Libo county, Guizhou province at an altitude of about 600 m above sea level, where it inhabits slowly flowing or stagnant parts of a subterranean river.[2]
References
- ↑ "Daipotamon minos". Iucnredlist.org. Retrieved 2017-11-13.
- 1 2 Ng, Peter K. L.; Trontelj, Peter (1996). "Daipotamon minos, a new genus and species of potamid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from a cave in China". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 109. ISSN 0006-324X.
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