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Old World Freshwater Crabs
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Old World Freshwater Crabs

Potamoidea

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

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3 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first

Eurasian Freshwater Crabs

familyPotamidae

African Freshwater Crabs

familyPotamonautidae

Deckeniidae

familyDeckeniidae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 71067.