Database details
| Full name: | Neotropical Freshwater Crabs Catalogue NEW! |
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| Short name: | FWCrabs |
| Version: | Oct 2009 |
| Release date: | 2009-11-01 |
| Authors/editors: | C. Magalhães |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Animalia - Arthropoda - Malacostraca - Decapoda - Trichodactyloidea - Trichodactylidae |
| English name of the group: | Freshwater crabs |
| Number of species: | 46 |
| Number of infraspecific taxa: | 2 |
| Number of synonyms: | 42 |
| Number of common names: | 0 |
| Total number of names: | 90 |
| Abstract: | The Catalogue is an ongoing initiative to provide basic information on two true freshwater Neotropical crab families (Trichodactylidae & Pseudothelphusidae). Trichodactylidae species list follows the classification proposed by Magalhães & Türkay (1996) and the Systema Brachyurorum by Ng, Guinot & Davie (2008). Future releases will include information on taxa, literature, type specimens, range of distribution and maps. |
| Organization: | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil |
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