Potamonautes raybouldi

Potamonautes raybouldi is a species of freshwater crab. It lives in water-filled tree holes in forests in the eastern Usambara Mountains of Tanzania and the Shimba Hills in Kenya.[1] It is threatened by deforestation resulting from the expansion of the human population, and is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List.[1] The species was described in 2004, and named after Professor John N. Raybould of the University of Bristol, who collected the first specimens of the species.[2]

Potamonautes raybouldi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Potamonautidae
Genus: Potamonautes
Species:
P. raybouldi
Binomial name
Potamonautes raybouldi
Cumberlidge & Vannini, 2004

References

  1. Cumberlidge, N. (2008). "Potamonautes raybouldi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T44539A10916902. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T44539A10916902.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. Neil Cumberlidge & Marco Vannini (2004). "Ecology and taxonomy of a tree-living freshwater crab (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae) from Kenya and Tanzania, East Africa" (PDF). Journal of Natural History. 38 (6): 681–693. doi:10.1080/0022293021000041716. S2CID 84539824. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-08-02.


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