Brasiliothelphusa

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Brasiliothelphusa tapajoensis
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Pseudothelphusidae
Genus: Brasiliothelphusa
Magalhães & Türkay, 1986
Species: B. tapajoensis
Magalhães & Türkay, 1986
Synonyms

B. tapajoense Magalhães & Türkay, 1986

Brasiliothelphusa tapajoensis is a species of freshwater crabs in the family Pseudothelphusidae, and the only species in the genus Brasiliothelphusa.[1] It was described in 1986 from specimens caught in the Rio Tapajós in the state of Pará, Brazil.[2] It is listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List.[3]

References

  1. Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter 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. Celio Magalhães & Michael Türkay (1986). "Brasiliothelphusa, a new Brazilian freshwater-crab genus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae)" (PDF). Senckenbergiana Biologica 66 (4/6)): 371–376. 
  3. N. Cumberlidge (2008). "Brasiliothelphusa tapajoense". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 3.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved December 4, 2010. 


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