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Pseudothelphusidae

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Family of crabs
Pseudothelphusidae
Guinotia dentata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Clade: Reptantia
Infraorder: Brachyura
Section: Eubrachyura
Subsection: Heterotremata
Superfamily: Pseudothelphusoidea
Ortmann, 1893 [1]
Family: Pseudothelphusidae
Ortmann, 1893 [1]

Pseudothelphusidae is a family of freshwater crabs found chiefly in mountain streams in the Neotropics.[2] They are believed to have originated in the Greater Antilles and then crossed to Central America via a Pliocene land bridge.[2] Some species of this family are troglobitic.

Parasitology

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Pseudothelpshusids are of significance to humans because many species are secondary hosts for lung flukes of the genus Paragonimus .[3] Predators of pseuthelphusid crabs include the yellow-spotted river turtle and the tufted capuchin.[3]

Taxonomy

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The following subfamilies and genera are recognised:[4] [5]

Guinotinae Pretzmann, 1971

Hypolobocerinae Pretzmann, 1971

Kingsleyinae Bott, 1970

Potamocarcininae Ortmann, 1897

Pseudothelphusinae Ortmann, 1893

Ptychophallinae Álvarez, Ojeda, Souza-Carvalho, Villalobos, Magalhães, Wehrtmann & Mantelatto, 2020

Raddausinae Álvarez, Ojeda, Souza-Carvalho, Villalobos, Magalhães, Wehrtmann & Mantelatto, 2020

Strengerianinae Rodríguez, 1982

References

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  1. ^ a b "Pseudothelphusidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved October 7, 2010.
  2. ^ a b H. J. Dumont (1982). "Book review: Les crabes d'eau douce d'Amerique by G. Rodriguez". Hydrobiologia . 94 (3): 294. doi:10.1007/BF00016411.
  3. ^ a b Gilberto Rodríguez & Célio Magalhães (2005). "Recent advances in the biology of the Neotropical freshwater crab family Pseudothelphusidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)" (PDF). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia . 22 (2): 354–365. doi:10.1590/S0101-81752005000200009 .
  4. ^ Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter 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.
  5. ^ Boyko, Christopher B. (23 August 2022). "Pseudothelphusidae Ortmann, 1893". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 8 March 2025.
Superfamilies of Infraorder Brachyura (true crabs)
Dromiacea
Raninoida
Cyclodorippoida
Eubrachyura
(Basal Eubrachyura)
Heterotremata
Thoracotremata


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