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Daipotamon

Daipotamon minos is a cavernicolous freshwater crab species found in a single limestone cave near La Tai village in Libo county, Guizhou province at an altitude of about 600 m above sea level, where it inhabits slowly flowing or stagnant parts of a subterranean river. It is the only species of the genus Daipotamon.

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Daipotamon minos
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Potamidae
Genus: Daipotamon
Species:
D. minos
Binomial name
Daipotamon minos
Ng & Trontelj, 1996

Daipotamon minos is a cavernicolous freshwater crab species found in a single limestone cave near La Tai village in Libo county, Guizhou province at an altitude of about 600 m above sea level, where it inhabits slowly flowing or stagnant parts of a subterranean river.2 It is the only species of the genus Daipotamon.3

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References

  1. Cumberlidge, N. (2008). "Daipotamon minos". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008 e.T134081A3891811. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T134081A3891811.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. Ng, Peter K. L. & Trontelj, Peter (1996). "Daipotamon minos, a new genus and species of potamid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from a cave in China". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 109: 476–481. ISSN 0006-324X.
  3. "Daipotamon Ng & Trontelj, 1996". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2019.