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Afrithelphusa
Sign in to saveAfrithelphusa is a genus of freshwater crabs in the family Deckeniidae. It contains four species, all of which were formerly listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). They are all endemic to the Upper Guinean forests of Guinea and Sierra Leone.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- FamilyDeckeniidae
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6 sectionsContents
- ''Afrithelphusa afzelii''
- ''Afrithelphusa gerhildae''
- ''Afrithelphusa leonensis''
- ''Afrithelphusa monodosa''
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Afrithelphusa is a genus of freshwater crabs in the family Deckeniidae. It contains four species, all of which were formerly listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). They are all endemic to the Upper Guinean forests of Guinea and Sierra Leone.
==Afrithelphusa afzelii== Afrithelphusa afzelii (Colosi, 1924) is known from two specimens collected in 1796 from a single, unknown locality in Sierra Leone. It is considered possibly extinct. In 2021, the species was rediscovered in Moyamba District by Pierre A. Mvogo Ndongo, a researcher from the University of Douala.
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