Potamidae

Potamidae
Temporal range: Paleocene_recent [1]
Potamon fluviatile
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Superfamily: Potamoidea
Family: Potamidae
Ortmann, 1896
Subfamilies
  • Potaminae
  • Potamiscinae

Potamidae is a family of freshwater crabs. It includes more than 650 species and nearly 100 genera, which are placed into two subfamilies: Potaminae and Potamiscinae.[2]

  1. ^ "Braggs-Pine Barren-Beds 7-9 (Paleocene of the United States)". PBDB.
  2. ^ Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.

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