Potamon Savigny 1816 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Potamidae

Synonyms: Telphusa Latreille 1819, Thelpheusa Latreille 1819, Thelphusa Latreille 1819

Parent taxon: Potaminae according to C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann 2020

See also Dana 1851 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxon: Acanthopotamon

Subtaxa: Potamon antiquum Potamon castellinense Potamon hegauense Potamon hungaricum Potamon ibericum Potamon potamios Potamon proavitum Potamon quenstedti Potamon sivalense Potamon speciosus

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Ecology: infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Hungary (2 collections), Israel (2), Slovakia (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Hungary (1)

• Pliocene of India (1)

• Miocene of Austria (6), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Germany (8), Italy (1), Slovakia (2), Turkey (3)

Total: 28 collections each including a single occurrence

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