Parathelphusidae
Sign in to savethumb|Arachnothelphusa rhadamanthysiCave crab, Borneo
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- FamilyGecarcinucidae
Habitatfreshwater
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4
- Family
- Parathelphusidae
- Collections
- UF
- Recorded in
- Thailand, Indonesia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Gecarcinucoidea
- Image
- Parath convex 060324-4042 ckup.jpg
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- taxon name
- Parathelphusidae
- taxon rank
- family
- Commons category
- Parathelphusidae
- taxon synonym of
- Gecarcinucidae
- taxon author citation
- Alcock, 1910
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thumb|Arachnothelphusa rhadamanthysiCave crab, Borneo
Parathelphusinae is a subfamily of freshwater crabs, which was formerly placed in the family Parathelphusidae; they are mainly found in South and Southeast Asia, but also found elsewhere in Asia and in Australia. The family is now considered as a junior synonym of the family Gecarcinucidae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Parathelphusidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.