Potamonautinae

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
Genera: Erimetopus – Liberonautes – Louisea – Platythelphusa – Potamonautes – Potamonemus – Sudanonautes
Name

Potamonautinae Bott, 1970

References

Bott, R. 1970. Betrachtungen über entwicklungsgeschichte und Verbreitung der Süsswasserkrabben nach der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums in Genf/Schweiz. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 77(2): 327–344. Reference page.
Cumberlidge, N. & P.F. Clark, 2010: Two new species of freshwater crabs from Mount Elgon, East Africa (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae) and a re-diagnosis of Potamonautes niloticus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) with notes on their natural history and onchocerciasis. Journal of NaturalHistory 44 (29-30): 1807-1829. DOI: 10.1080/00222931003678792. Abstract: [1].
Mvogo Ndongo, P.A.M., Schubart, C.D., von Rintelen, T., Tamesse, J.L. & Cumberlidge, N. 2017a. Morphological and molecular evidence for a new species of freshwater crab of the genus Sudanonautes Bott, 1955 (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae) from Cameroon, with notes on its ecology. Zootaxa 4242(1): 161–173. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4242.1.8. Reference page.
Mvogo Ndongo, P.A., Cumberlidge, N., Poettinger, T.S., von Rintelen, T., Tamesse, J.L. & Schubart, C.D. 2017b. Molecular evidence for the assignment of the Cameroonian freshwater crab genus Louisea Cumberlidge, 1994, to the Afrotropical subfamily Potamonautinae Bott, 1970 (Crustacea: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae). Zootaxa 4286(3): 439–444. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.3.12. Reference page.
Ndongo, P.A.M., von Rintelen, T., Albrecht, C., Tamesse, J.L. & Cumberlidge, N. 2018. Lost species in Cameroon: rediscovery of the endangered freshwater crab, Louisea balssi (Bott, 1959) (Brachyura: Potamonautidae), with notes on its ecology and conservation. Zootaxa 4394(3): 407–416. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.3.6 Reference page.
Ndongo, P.A.M., von Rintelen, T., Clark, P.F., Shahdadi, A., Tchietchui, C.R. & Cumberlidge, N. 2022. Phylogenetic relationships among the species of the Cameroonian endemic freshwater crab genus Louisea Cumberlidge, 1994 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Potamonautidae), with notes on intraspecific morphological variation within two threatened species. Zookeys 1122ː 125–143. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1122.85791 Open access Reference page.
Ndongo, P.A.M., von Rintelen, T. & Cumberlidge, N. 2019. Taxonomic revision of the endemic Cameroonian freshwater crab genus Louisea Cumberlidge, 1994 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamonautidae), with descriptions of two new species from Nkongsamba and Yabassi. ZooKeys, 881: 135–164. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.881.36744 Open access Reference page.