Nanhaipotamon macau

Nanhaipotamon macau
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Potamidae
Genus: Nanhaipotamon
Species:
N. macau
Binomial name
Nanhaipotamon macau
Huang, Wong & Ahyong, 2018

Nanhaipotamon macau, the Coloane hill crab, is a species of freshwater crab found solely in twelve hill streams on the island of Coloane in Macao. A member of the genus Nanhaipotamon, it was first described in December 2018[1][2] and is closely related to other land crabs such as Nanhaipotamon hongkongense.[2]

  1. ^ "Nanhaipotamon macau Huang, Wong & Ahyong, 2018". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ^ a b Chao Huang; Kai Chin Wong; Shane T Ahyong (20 December 2018). "The freshwater crabs of Macau, with the description of a new species of Nanhaipotamon Bott, 1968 and the redescription of Nanhaipotamonwupingense Cheng, Yang, Zhong & Li, 2003 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Potamidae)". ZooKeys. 810 (810): 91–111. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.810.30726. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 6308228. PMID 30613174. Wikidata Q60049201.