Foza

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Brachyura
Sectio: Eubrachyura
Subsectio: Heterotremata
Superfamilia: Potamoidea

Familia: Potamonautidae
Subfamilia: Potamonautinae
Genus: Foza
Species: F. ambohitra – F. goudoti – F. raimundi

[list of species after Cumberlidge & Meyer (2009)]
Name

Foza Reed & Cumberlidge, 2006
Type species

Foza raimundi Reed & Cumberlidge, 2006

References

Cumberlidge, N.; Meyer, K.S. 2009: A new species of Foza Reed & Cumberlidge, 2006 from northern Madagascar (Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamoidea, Potamonautidae), with a redescription of F. goudoti (H. Milne Edwards, 1853) comb. n., and comments on Skelosophusa prolixa Ng & Takeda, 1994. In: Bruce, N. (ed.) Advances in the taxonomy and biogeography of Crustacea in the Southern Hemisphere. ZooKeys, 18: 77–89. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.18.102
Reed, S.K.; Cumberlidge, N. 2006: Foza raimundi, a new genus and species of potamonautid freshwater crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Potamoidea) from northern Madagascar. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 119: 58–66. DOI: 10.2988/0006-324X(2006)119[58:FRANGA]2.0.CO;2