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Lost species in Cameroon: rediscovery of the endangered freshwater crab, Louisea balssi (Bott, 1959) (Brachyura: Potamonautidae), with notes on its ecology and conservation.

Zootaxa, 2018
The rare and endangered Cameroonian potamonautid freshwater crab, Louisea balssi (Bott, 1959), was recently rediscovered after not having been seen for the last 109 years and presumed extinct. The new specimens of L.
P. A. M. Ndongo, T. Rintelen, C. Albrecht, J. Tamesse, N. Cumberlidge   +4 more
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The freshwater crab genera Ghatiana Pati Sharma, Gubernatoriana Bott, and Inglethelphusa Bott (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) revisited, with descriptions of a new genus and eleven new species.

Zootaxa, 2018
The taxonomy of three morphologically related and endemic genera of the northern Western Ghats (Ghatiana Pati Sharma, 2014, Gubernatoriana Bott, 1970, and Inglethelphusa Bott, 1970) is re-assessed to accommodate several new taxa. We describe a new genus,
S. K. Pati, T. Thackeray
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Genetic and morphological evidence for a new mountain-living freshwater crab species (Decapoda : Potamonautidae : Potamonautes) from the Western Cape province of South Africa

Invertebrate systematics, 2016
. Recent studies in southern Africa have revealed a wealth of novel freshwater crab species in high mountainous regions. In the present study, phylogeographic affinities between two sister mountain-living freshwater crab species (Potamonautes brincki and
L. Wood, S. Daniels
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New data on the taxonomy, ecology, and conservation of the rediscovered Louisea edeaensis (Bott, 1969) (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae), an endangered freshwater crab from Cameroon.

Zootaxa, 2017
The rare and endangered Cameroonian potamonautid freshwater crab Louisea edeaensis (Bott, 1969) was recently rediscovered during a biological inventory of the freshwater decapods of southern Cameroon.
P. A. M. Ndongo, T. Rintelen, C. Schubart, C. Albrecht, J. Tamesse, N. Cumberlidge   +5 more
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Morphological and molecular evidence for a new species of freshwater crab of the genus Sudanonautes Bott, 1955 (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae) from Cameroon, with notes on its ecology.

Zootaxa, 2017
A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Sudanonautes Bott, 1955, is described from the tropical rainforests of Edea and Tiko in southern Cameroon, Central Africa. Sudanonautes tiko n. sp.
P. A. M. Ndongo, C. Schubart, T. Rintelen, J. Tamesse, N. Cumberlidge   +4 more
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Detoxification and recovery after cadmium exposure in the freshwater crab Sinopotamon henanense

Environmental science and pollution research international, 2021
Zihan Xu, Jing Liu, E. Wang, Chen-Xi Zhao, Xuelei Hu, K. Chu, Lan Wang   +6 more
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Teretamon spelaeum, a new species of freshwater crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Potamidae) from a limestone cave in Meghalaya, India.

Zootaxa, 2017
A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Teretamon Yeo Ng, 2007 is described based on material collected from a limestone cave state of Meghalaya, in the northeastern Himalayan region of India. Teretamon spelaeum n. sp.
Parveen Farzana Absar, S. Mitra, I. Kharkongor   +2 more
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A new genus of freshwater crab of the tribe Kingsleyini Bott, 1970 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Pseudothelphusidae) with description of a new species from Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Zootaxa, 2016
A new genus and species of freshwater crab, Melothelphusa apiaka n. gen., n. sp., from Mato Grosso, Central Brazil is described and illustrated. Brasiliothelphusa dardanelosensis Magalhães & Türkay, 2010, is assigned to the new genus Melothelphusa ...
Manuel Pedraza, M. Tavares, C. Magalhães   +2 more
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Oxidative stress induced by acute and sub-chronic cadmium exposure in the ovaries of the freshwater crab Sinopotamon henanense (Dai, 1975)

, 2016
Cadmium (Cd) is one of the most toxic environmental pollutants, and is known to have multiple toxic effects on many tissues and organs, including the ovaries. However, the mechanisms underlying Cd toxicity on animal ovaries remain unknown.
P. Xu, H. Chen, Y. Xi, X. Mao, Lan Wang
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A re-appraisal of the widely-distributed freshwater crab genus Sinopotamon Bott, 1967, from China, with establishment of a new genus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Potamidae).

Zootaxa, 2016
Freshwater crabs of the genus Sinopotamon Bott, 1967 (family Potamidae) are widely distributed along the Yangtze River (= Chang Jiang) drainage and are endemic to China. Two distinct clades can be distinguished within Sinopotamon s. lato. on the basis of
H. Shih, Chao Huang, Peter K. L. Ng
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