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Published: 2008-06-30
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Five new species of freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from China

Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore
Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore Present address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Department of Parasitology, Medical College of Nanchang University, BaYi Avenue 603#, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province 330006, People's Republic of China
Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura Potamidae Latopotamon Sinopotamon Trichopotamon freshwater crabs taxonomy new species China

Abstract

Two species of Latopotamon Dai & Türkay, 1997, one species of Trichopotamon Dai & Chen, 1985, all from Yunnan Province, China, and two species of Sinopotamon Bott, 1967, from Hu’nan Province, China, are described as new. The new species are compared with the most similar congeners. This study brings the number of species of Latopotamon to three, Sinopotamon to 81, and Trichopotamon to two.

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