| Globonautes macropus | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Family: | Potamonautidae |
| Genus: | Globonautes Bott, 1959 |
| Species: | G. macropus |
| Binomial name | |
| Globonautes macropus (Rathbun, 1898) |
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Globonautes macropus is a species of crab in the family Potamonautidae, the only species in the genus Globonautes.[1] It is found in Guinea and Liberia and presumably in Sierra Leone, and is listed as an endangered species on the IUCN Red List.[2] It lives in tree hollows filled with water, in closed-canopy rainforest.[2]