Potamonautes

Potamonautes
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous–Recent
Potamonautes sidneyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Potamonautidae
Genus: Potamonautes
Macleay, 1838 [1]
Type species
Thelphusa perlata
H. Milne-Edwards, 1837

Potamonautes is a genus of freshwater crabs in the family Potamonautidae. It contains the following species:[1]

  • Potamonautes adeleae Bott, 1968
  • Potamonautes alluaudi (Bouvier, 1921)
  • Potamonautes aloysiisabaudiae (Nobili, 1906)
  • Potamonautes amalerensis (Rathbun, 1935)
  • Potamonautes antheus (Colosi, 1920)
  • Potamonautes anchietae (Brito Capello, 1871)
  • Potamonautes ballayi (A. Milne-Edwards, 1886)
  • Potamonautes bayonianus (Brito Capello, 1864)
  • Potamonautes berardi (Audouin, 1826)
  • Potamonautes dubius (Brito Capello, 1864)
  • Potamonautes bipartitus (Hilgendorf, 1898)
  • Potamonautes brincki (Bott, 1960)
  • Potamonautes calcaratus (Gordon, 1929)
  • Potamonautes clarus Gouws, Stewart & Coke, 2000
  • Potamonautes depressus (Krauss, 1843)
  • Potamonautes dybowskii (Rathbun, 1905)
  • Potamonautes dentatus Stewart, Coke & Cook, 1995
  • Potamonautes didieri (Rathbun, 1904)
  • 'Potamonautes dubius (Brito Capello, 1864)
  • Potamonautes ecorssei (Marchand, 1902)
  • Potamonautes emini (Hilgendorf, 1892)
  • Potamonautes gerdalensis Bott, 1955
  • Potamonautes granularis Daniels, Stewart & Gibbons, 1998
  • Potamonautes idjiwiensis (Chace, 1942)
  • Potamonautes ignestii (Parisi, 1923)
  • Potamonautes infravallatus (Hilgendorf, 1898)
  • Potamonautes jeanneli (Bouvier, 1921)
  • Potamonautes johnstoni (Miers, 1885)
  • Potamonautes kensleyi Cumberlidge & Tavares, 2006
  • Potamonautes langi (Rathbun, 1921)
  • Potamonautes lirrangensis (Rathbun, 1904)
  • Potamonautes lividus Gouws, Stewart & Reavell, 2001
  • Potamonautes loashiensis Bott, 1955
  • Potamonautes loveni (Colosi, 1924)
  • Potamonautes loveridgei (Rathbun, 1933)
  • Potamonautes lueboensis (Rathbun, 1904)
  • Potamonautes machadoi Bott, 1964
  • Potamonautes macrobrachii Bott, 1953
  • Potamonautes margaritarius (A. Milne-Edwards, 1869)
  • Potamonautes montivagus (Chace, 1953)
  • Potamonautes mutandensis (Chace, 1953)
  • Potamonautes neumanni (Hilgendorf, 1898)
  • Potamonautes niloticus (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837)
  • Potamonautes obesus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1868)
  • Potamonautes odhneri (Colosi, 1924)
  • Potamonautes paecilei (A. Milne-Edwards, 1886)
  • Potamonautes parvicorpus Daniels, Stewart & Burmeister, 2001
  • Potamonautes parvispina Stewart, 1997
  • Potamonautes perlatus (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837)
  • Potamonautes preparvus (Rathbun, 1921)
  • Potamonautes pilosus (Hilgendorf, 1898)
  • Potamonautes platycentron Hilgendorf, 1897
  • Potamonautes platynotus (Cunnington, 1907)
  • Potamonautes punctatus Bott, 1955
  • Potamonautes raybouldi Cumberlidge & Vannini, 2004
  • Potamonautes reidi Cumberlidge, 1999
  • Potamonautes rodolphianus (Rathbun, 1909)
  • Potamonautes rothschildi (Rathbun, 1909)
  • Potamonautes rukwanzi Corace, Cumberlidge & Garms, 2001
  • Potamonautes schubotzi (Balss, 1914)
  • Potamonautes semilunaris Bott, 1955
  • Potamonautes senegalensis Bott, 1970
  • Potamonautes sidneyi (Rathbun, 1904)
  • Potamonautes stanleyensis (Rathbun, 1921)
  • Potamonautes suprasulcatus (Hilgendorf, 1898)
  • Potamonautes triangulus Bott, 1959
  • Potamonautes unispinus Stewart & Cook, 1998
  • Potamonautes unisulcatus (Rathbun, 1933)
  • Potamonautes walderi (Colosi, 1924)
  • Potamonautes warreni (Calman, 1918)
  • Potamonautes xiphoidus Reed & Cumberlidge, 2006

One extant species is also known from the fossil record;[2] P. niloticus is abundant in Miocene sediments (6 million years ago) of Lake Albert. Extinct species assigned to Potamonautes are also known from the Late Cretaceous of Niger.[3]

Distribution

Some of the species within this genus have rather restricted ranges of occurrence. For example, P. dubious is found only in limited parts of the Kunene River and upper Zambezi River in Southern Africa.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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. ↑ Sammy De Grave, N. Dean Pentcheff, Shane T. Ahyong et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.
  3. ↑ Michael Dobson (2004). "Freshwater crabs in Africa" (PDF). Freshwater Forum 21: 3–26.
  4. ↑ C.Michael Hogan. 2012. Kunene River. eds. P.Saundry & C.Cleveland. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC.