Potamonautes

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
Cladus: Pancrustacea
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: Potamonautes
Species: P. acristatus – P. adeleae – P. adentatus – P. alluaudi – P. aloysiisabaudiae – P. amalerensis – P. amathole – P. anchietae – P. antheus – P. ballayi – P. barbarai – P. barnardi – P. bayonianus – P. baziya – P. bellarussus – P. berardi – P. biballensis – P. bipartitus – P. bourgaultae – P. brincki – P. busungwe – P. calcaratus – P. choloensis – P. clarus – P. congoensis – P. danielsi – P. dentatus – P. depressus – P. didieri – P. dubius – P. dybowskii – P. ecorssei – P. elgonensis – P. emini – P. entebbe – P. flavusjo – P. gerdalensis – P. gonocristatus – P. gorongosa – P. granularis – P. holthuisi – P. idjwiensis – P. ignestii – P. infravallatus – P. isimangaliso – P. jeanneli – P. johnstoni – P. kantsyore – P. kensleyi – P. kundudo – P. laetabilis – P. langi – P. lindblomi – P. lipkei – P. lirrangensis – P. lividus – P. loashiensis – P. loveni – P. loveridgei – P. lueboensis – P. machadoi – P. macrobrachii – P. margaritarius – P. mariepskoppie – P. mhlophe – P. minor – P. montivagus – P. mulanjeensis – P. mutandensis – P. mutareensis – P. namuliensis – P. neumanni – P. nheenae – P. niloticus – P. obesus – P. odhneri – P. paecilei – P. parvicorpus – P. parvispina – P. perlatus – P. perparvus – P. pilosus – P. platycentron – P. platynotus – P. principe – P. punctatus – P. raybouldi – P. regnieri – P. reidi – P. rodolphianus – P. rothschildi – P. rukwanzi – P. schubotzi – P. semilunaris – P. senegalensis – P. sidneyi – P. stanleyensis – P. subukia – P. suprasulcatus – P. triangulus – P. unispinus – P. unisulcatus – P. walderi – P. warreni – P. williamsi – P. xiphoidus
Name

Potamonautes MacLeay, 1838

Type species: Thelphusa perlata Henri Milne-Edwards 1837
References

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Bott, R. 1955. Die Süsswasserkrabben von Afrika und ihre Stammesgeschichte. Annales du Musée Royal du Congo belge 1(3): 209–352. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Cumberlidge, N. 2017. Potamonautes nheenae, a new species of freshwater crab from Gabon, Central Africa, with a description of the first known male of Erimetopus brazzae (A. Milne-Edwards, 1886) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae). Zootaxa 4286(2): 228–240. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.2.6. Reference page.
Cumberlidge, N. & Clark, P.F. 2010. Two new species of freshwater crabs from Mount Elgon, East Africa (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae) and a rediagnosis of Potamonautes niloticus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) with notes on their natural history and onchocerciasis. Journal of Natural History 44(29-30): 1807-1829. full article (PDF). Reference page.
Peer, N., Gouws, G., Lazo-Wasem, E., Perissinotto, R. & Miranda, N.A.F. 2017. Redescription of Potamonautes sidneyi (Rathbun, 1904) (Decapoda, Potamonautidae) and description of a new congeneric species from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. ZooKeys 657: 1–28. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.657.11623. Reference page.
Peer, N., Gouws, G., Maliwa, L., Barker, N.P., Juby, P. & Perissinotto, R. 2023. Description of a new montane freshwater crab (Arthropoda, Malacostraca, Decapoda, Potamonautidae) from the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Zookeys 1160ː 89–108. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1160.100844 Open access Reference page.
Phiri, E.E. & Daniels, S.R. 2013. Hidden in the highlands: the description and phylogenetic position of a novel endemic freshwater crab species (Potamonautidae: Potamonautes) from Zimbabwe. Invertebrate systematics 27(5): 530–539. DOI: 10.1071/IS13012 Reference page.

Potamonautes is a genus of African freshwater crabs in the family Potamonautidae. It is both the most widespread and most diverse genus of African freshwater crabs, including more than half the species of this continent.[2] They are found in most freshwater habitats of the African mainland and some species are semi-terrestrial.[2]
Species

It contains the following species:[1][3]

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 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 isimangaliso (Peer & Gouws, 2015)
Potamonautes jeanneli (Bouvier, 1921)
Potamonautes johnstoni (Miers, 1885)
Potamonautes kensleyi Cumberlidge & Tavares, 2006
Potamonautes langi (Rathbun, 1921)
Potamonautes licoensis Daniels, Bittencourt-Silva, Muianga & Bayliss, 2020
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;[4] 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.[5]
Distribution

Potamonautes are restricted to Sub-Saharan Africa and the Nile Basin, with more than 30 species in East Africa (none on Madagascar, the Seychelles and other offshore African islands), more than 20 in the Congo Basin region, 20 in Southern Africa, 6 in northeast Africa and 5 in West Africa.[2] Although the genus includes common and widespread species, others have very restricted ranges of occurrence.[2] For example, P. dubious is found only in limited parts of the Kunene River and upper Zambezi River in Southern Africa.[6]
References

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.
Yeo, C.J.; Klaus, S.; and Cumberlidge, N. (2014). Advances in Freshwater Decapod Systematics and Biology. Pp. 86-87. ISBN 9789004207608
Daniels, Savel R.; Bittencourt-Silva, Gabriela B.; Muianga, Vanessa; Bayliss, Julian (2020-09-11). "Phylogenetics of the freshwater crab (Potamonautes MacLeay, 1838) fauna from 'sky islands' in Mozambique with the description of a new species (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy (716). doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.716. ISSN 2118-9773.
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.
Michael Dobson (2004). "Freshwater crabs in Africa". Freshwater Forum. 21: 3–26. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-06-23. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
C.Michael Hogan. 2012. Kunene River. eds. P.Saundry & C.Cleveland. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC.