Hainanpotamon Explained

Hainanpotamon is a genus of freshwater crabs, containing the following species:^{[1] [2]}

The genus was originally described in 1975 by Dang as Orientalia but that name was a junior homonym of the mollusc genus Orientalia, established by Radoman in 1972.^[3] The first available name is therefore Hainanpotamon, independently established by Dai in 1995.^[3]

Notes and References

1. . 2008 . 17 . 1–286 . Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world . Peter K. L. Ng . Danièle Guinot . Peter J. F. Davie . amp . . 2011-10-20 . 2011-06-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061453/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf . dead .
2. De Grave, Sammy . 2019 . Hainanpotamon Dai, 1995 . 439706 . October 9, 2023.
3. A revision of the freshwater crab genus Hainanpotamon Dai, 1995 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae: Potamiscinae), with a redescription of Potamon (Potamon) orientale (Parisi, 1916) and descriptions of three new species . . Darren C. J. Yeo . Tohru Naruse . amp . . 24 . 11 . 1143–1158 . 2007 . 10.2108/zsj.24.1143.