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  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Potamonautidae |
| Genus: | Potamonautes |
| Species: | P. raybouldi |
| Binomial name | |
| Potamonautes raybouldi Cumberlidge & Vannini, 2004 | |
References
- Neil Cumberlidge (2004). "Potamonautes raybouldi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004. Retrieved August 2, 2011.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-08-02.
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