Freshwater crabs and the biodiversity crisis: Importance, threats, status, and conservation challenges
- N. Cumberlidge, P. Ng, Mala Ram
- Environmental Science
- 1 August 2009
Global diversity of crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) in freshwater
- D. Yeo, P. Ng, N. Cumberlidge, C. Magalhães, S. Daniels, M. R. Campos
- Biology, Environmental ScienceHydrobiologia
- 2007
Estimates of true freshwater crab diversity including likely numbers of undescribed taxa suggest that the field remains largely in a “discovery” phase.
Freshwater prawns of the genus Macrobrachium Bate, 1868 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) of Colombia
- D. Valencia, M. R. Campos
- Biology
- 25 April 2007
A review of the species of freshwater prawns belonging to the genus Macrobrachium in Colombia is presented and three species are recorded for the first time in the country.
FRESHWATER SHRIMPS OF THE COLOMBIAN TRIBUTARIES OF THE AMAZON AND ORINOCO RIVERS (PALAEMONIDAE, EURYRHYNCHIDAE, SERGESTIDAE)
- D. Valencia, M. R. Campos
- Biology
- 2010
A review of freshwater shrimps belonging to the genera Palaemonetes,Pseudopalaemon, Euryrhynchus and Acetes of the Colombian tributaries of theAmazon and Orinoco Rivers is presented. The species…
A cladistic revision of the genus Fredius (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae) and its significance to the biogeography of the Guianan lowlands of South America
- G. Rodríguez, M. R. Campos
- Biology
- 1 May 1998
A revision of the cladistic analysis presented by Rodriguez and Pereira (1992) for the species of the genus Fredius Pretzmann, 1967 (Pseudothelphusidae), was carried out using additional species and…
Freshwater crabs from eastern Panamá: a new species of Potamocarcinus H. Milne Edwards, 1853, and new records of two little-known species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae, Trichodactylidae).
- C. Magalhães, M. R. Campos, M. Türkay
- BiologyZootaxa
- 28 August 2013
A small collection of freshwater crabs from eastern Panamá revealed a new species of pseudothelphusid crab, Potamocarcinus darienensis n. sp., which is described and illustrated. The new species is…
Diversity, Distribution and Conservation of Freshwater Crabs and Shrimps in South America
- C. Magalhães, M. R. Campos, P. Collins, F. Mantelatto
- Environmental Science
- 2016
South America has a huge diversity of freshwater decapods that occupy a variety of ecosystems including major rivers, lakes, wetlands, and mountain streams. Although large areas of the continent’s…
TWO NEW FRESHWATER CRABS OF THE GENUS PTYCHOPHALLUS SMALLEY, 1964 (CRUSTACEA: DECAPODA: BRACHYURA: PSEUDOTHELPHUSIDAE) FROM PANAMA, WITH NOTES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE GENUS
- M. R. Campos, R. Lemaitre
- Biology
- 1999
Two new species of freshwater crabs of the genus Ptychophallus Smalley, from Panama, P. uncinatus and P. kuna, are described and illustrated, and a sunmiary of the geographic distribution of the species in the genus is presented.
Colombiathelphusa, a new genus of freshwater crab from Colombia, and the first location record of Eidocamptophallus chacei (Pretzmann, 1967) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae).
- M. R. Campos, C. Magalhães
- BiologyZootaxa
- 14 September 2014
A new genus of pseudothelphusid crab is established to include Colombiathelphusa culmarcuata n.
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