Hainanpotamon

Hainanpotamon is a genus of freshwater crabs, containing the following species:[1][2]

  • Hainanpotamon auriculatum Yeo & Naruse, 2008
  • Hainanpotamon daiae Yeo & Naruse, 2008
  • Hainanpotamon directum Yeo & Naruse, 2008
  • Hainanpotamon fuchengense Dai, 1995
  • Hainanpotamon glabrum (Dang, 1967)
  • Hainanpotamon helense Dai, 1995
  • Hainanpotamon orientale (Parisi, 1916)
  • Hainanpotamon rubrum (Dang & Tran, 1992)
  • Hainanpotamon vietnamicum (Dang & Hô, 2002)

Hainanpotamon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Brachyura
Family:
Potamidae
Subfamily:
Potamiscinae
Genus:
Hainanpotamon

Dai, 1995 [1]
Type species
Potamon (Potamon) orientale
Parisi, 1916
Synonyms
  • Orientalia Dang, 1975, non Radoman, 1972

The genus was originally described in 1975 by Dang as Orientalia but that name was a junior homonym of the mollusc genus Orientalia, established by Radoman in 1975.[3] The first available name is therefore Hainanpotamon, independently established by Dai in 1975.[3]

References
  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. Peter Davie (2011). "Hainanpotamon Dai, 1995". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  3. Darren C. J. Yeo & Tohru Naruse (2007). "A revision of the freshwater crab genus Hainanpotamon Dai, 1995 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae: Potamiscinae), with a redescription of Potamon (Potamon) orientale (Parisi, 1916) and descriptions of three new species" (PDF). Zoological Science. 24 (11): 1143–1158. doi:10.2108/zsj.24.1143.


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