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Eurasian Freshwater Crabs
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Eurasian Freshwater Crabs

Potamidae

Potamidae is a family of freshwater crabs. Its more than 650 species and nearly 100 genera are divided into two subfamilies — Potaminae around the Mediterranean Sea, on Socotra and eastwards to Northern India, and Potamiscinae in East Asia.

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2 branches of this family, most-observed first

Potamiscinae

subfamilyPotamiscinae

Potaminae

subfamilyPotaminae

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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 71068.