Potamoidea

Potamoidea
Potamon fluviatile
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Subsection: Heterotremata
Superfamily: Potamoidea
Ortmann, 1896
Families[1]

Potamidae
Potamonautidae

Potamoidea is a superfamily of freshwater crabs, comprising the two families Potamidae and Potamonautidae.[1] Two previously recognised families, Deckeniidae and Platythelphusidae, are now treated as parts of the family Potamonautidae.[1]

  1. ^ a b c P. K. L. Ng, D. Guinot & P. 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.

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