List of freshwater crabs of Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka is a tropical island situated close to the southern tip of India. The invertebrate fauna is as large as it is common to other regions of the world. There are about two million species of arthropods found in the world, and still it is counting with many new species still being discovered. It is very complicated and difficult to summarize the exact number of species found within a certain region.
The following list provide the freshwater crabs of Sri Lanka.
Freshwater crabs
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Order: Decapoda.
Sri Lanka's freshwater crab fauna is extremely important to the island, due to its endemism. All recorded 51 species, along with five genera, are totally endemic to Sri Lanka. 98% of those crabs are IUCN categorized as threatened, endangered or critically endangered animals.
Family: Parathelphusidae
- Ceylonthelphusa alpina
- Ceylonthelphusa armata
- Ceylonthelphusa callista
- Ceylonthelphusa cavatrix
- Ceylonthelphusa diva
- Ceylonthelphusa durrelli
- Ceylonthelphusa kandambyi
- Ceylonthelphusa kotagama
- Ceylonthelphusa nata
- Ceylonthelphusa orthos
- Ceylonthelphusa rugosa
- Ceylonthelphusa savitriae
- Ceylonthelphusa sentosa
- Ceylonthelphusa sanguinea
- Ceylonthelphusa soror
- Ceylonthelphusa venusta
- Clinothelphusa kakoota
- Mahatha adonis
- Mahatha helaya
- Mahatha iora
- Mahatha lacuna
- Mahatha ornatipes
- Mahatha regina
- Oziothelphusa ceylonensis
- Oziothelphusa dakuna
- Oziothelphusa gallicola
- Oziotelphusa hippocastanum
- Oziothelphusa intuta
- Oziothelphusa kodagoda
- Oziotelphusa mineriyaensis
- Oziothelphusa populosa
- Oziothelphusa ritigala
- Oziothelphusa stricta
- Pastilla dacuna
- Perbrinckia fenestra
- Perbrinckia cracens
- Perbrinckia enodis
- Perbrinckia fido
- Perbrinckia gabadagei
- Perbrinckia glabra
- Perbrinckia integra
- Perbrinckia morayensis
- Perbrinckia nana
- Perbrinckia punctata
- Perbrinckia quadratus
- Perbrinckia rosae
- Perbrinckia scansor - only tree climbing crab in Sri Lanka.
- Perbrinckia scitula
- Perbrinckia uva
- Spiralothelphusa fernandoi
- Spiralothelphusa parvula
References
Bibliography
- Beenaerts, Natalie; Pethiyagoda, Rohan; Ng, Peter K. L.; Yeo, Darren C. J.; Bex, Geert Jan; Bahir, Mohomed M.; Artois, Tom (2010). "Phylogenetic diversity of Sri Lankan freshwater crabs and its implications for conservation". Molecular Ecology 19 (1): 183–96. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04439.x. PMID 19943890.