Potamon

Potamon
Potamon fluviatile
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Potamidae
Genus: Potamon
Savigny, 1816 [1]
Type species
Potamon fluviatile
(Herbst, 1785)

Potamon is a genus of freshwater or semi-terrestrial crabs mainly found from Southern Europe through the Middle East, and as far east as north-western India.[2] The only exception is the North African P. algeriense, which also is the only Potamid of mainland Africa. Twenty species are currently recognised:[1][3][4]

  • Potamon algeriense Bott, 1967
  • Potamon bileki Pretzmann, 1971
  • Potamon bilobatum Brandis, Storch & Türkay, 2000
  • Potamon fluviatile (Herbst, 1785)
  • Potamon gedrosianum Alcock, 1909
  • Potamon hueceste Pretzmann, 1983
  • Potamon ibericum (Bieberstein, 1808)
  • Potamon magnum Pretzmann, 1962
  • Potamon mesopotamicum Pretzmann, 1962
  • Potamon monticola Alcock, 1910
  • Potamon pelops Jesse et al., 2010
  • Potamon persicum Pretzmann, 1962
  • Potamon potamios (Olivier, 1804)
  • Potamon rhodium Parisi, 1913
  • Potamon ruttneri Pretzmann, 1962
  • Potamon setigerum Rathbun, 1904
  • Potamon strouhali Pretzmann, 1962
  • Potamon transcaspicum Pretzmann, 1962
  • Potamon ilam Keikhosravi & Schubart, 2014
  • Potamon elbursi Pretzmann, 1962

Many other taxa from Indo-China, originally described as species of Potamon, are now placed in other genera, such as Himalayapotamon, Beccumon, Eosamon and Takpotamon.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 P. K. L. Ng, D. Guinot & P. J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
  2. ↑ Darren C. J. Yeo & Peter K. L. Ng (2007). "On the genus "Potamon" and allies in Indochina (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 16: 273–308.
  3. ↑ Ruth Jesse, Christoph D. Schubart & Sebastian Klaus (2010). "Identification of a cryptic lineage within Potamon fluviatile (Herbst) (Crustacea : Brachyura : Potamidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 24 (4): 348–356. doi:10.1071/IS10014.
  4. ↑ Keikhosravi, Alireza; Schubart, Christoph D. "Description of new freshwater crab species of the genus Potamon(Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamidae) from Iran, based on morphological and genetic characters". In Daren C.J. Yeo. Advances in freshwater decapods systematics and biology. Brill. pp. 115–133. ISBN 978-9-0042-0760-8.


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