Hainanpotamon
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Hainanpotamon is a genus of freshwater crab
s, containing the following species:
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. The first available name is therefore Hainanpotamon, independently established by Dai in 1975.
Freshwater crab
There are around 1,300 species of freshwater crabs, distributed throughout the tropics and subtropics, divided among eight families. They show direct development and maternal care of a small number of offspring, in contrast to marine crabs which release thousands of planktonic larvae. This limits...
s, containing the following species:
- 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)
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. The first available name is therefore Hainanpotamon, independently established by Dai in 1975.