Potamonautes raybouldi is a species of freshwater crab. It lives in water-filled tree holes in forests in the eastern Usambara Mountains of Tanzania and the Shimba Hills in Kenya.[1] It is threatened by deforestation resulting from the expansion of the human population, and is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List.[1] The species was described in 2004, and named after Professor John N. Raybould of the University of Bristol, who collected the first specimens of the species.[2]
| Potamonautes raybouldi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Potamonautidae |
| Genus: | Potamonautes |
| Species: | P. raybouldi
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| Binomial name | |
| Potamonautes raybouldi Cumberlidge & Vannini, 2004
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References
edit- ^ a b c Cumberlidge, N. (2008). "Potamonautes raybouldi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T44539A10916902. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T44539A10916902.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ Neil Cumberlidge & Marco Vannini (2004). "Ecology and taxonomy of a tree-living freshwater crab (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae) from Kenya and Tanzania, East Africa" (PDF). Journal of Natural History. 38 (6): 681–693. doi:10.1080/0022293021000041716. S2CID 84539824. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-08-02.
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