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Diyutamon

Diyutamon cereum is a species of potamoid freshwater crab discovered in 2017 from a cave in Guizhou, China. It is the only species of the genus Diyutamon.

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Potamidae
Genus: Diyutamon
Huang, Shih & Ng, 2017
Species:
D. cereum
Binomial name
Diyutamon cereum
Huang, Shih & Ng, 2017

Diyutamon cereum is a species of potamoid freshwater crab discovered in 2017 from a cave in Guizhou, China. It is the only species of the genus Diyutamon.1

It is a troglobiont, with a pale body coloration and strongly reduced eyes.

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  1. Huang, Chao; Shih, Hsi-Te; Ng, Peter K.L. (February 15, 2017). "A new genus and new species of Potamidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamoidae), the first stygomorphic cave crab known from China and East Asia". Zootaxa. 4232 (1): 71–84. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4232.1.5. PMID 28264380.