African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Rotundopotamonautes loveni (Colosi, 1924)

AfReMaS taxon details

Rotundopotamonautes loveni (Colosi, 1924)

AphiaID

1596171 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1596171)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Rotundopotamonautes Bott, 1955

Original name

Potamon (Geothelphusa) Lovéni Colosi, 1924

Synonymised names

Potamonautes loveni (Colosi, 1924) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of ) Colosi, G. (1924). Potamonidés africains du Muséum de Stockholm. Arkiv för Zoologi. 16(1): 1–23, pl. 1. [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Rotundopotamonautes loveni (Colosi, 1924). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1596171 on 2026-05-06

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Rotundopotamonautes loveni (Colosi, 1924). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1596171 on 2026-05-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2022-08-01 05:24:54Z

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Ahyong, Shane

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original description (of ) Colosi, G. (1924). Potamonidés africains du Muséum de Stockholm. Arkiv för Zoologi. 16(1): 1–23, pl. 1. [details] Available for editors

basis of record Cumberlidge, N. & Daniels, S. R. (2022). A new multilocus phylogeny reveals overlooked diversity in African freshwater crabs (Brachyura: Potamoidea): a major revision with new higher taxa and genera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 194(4): 1268–1311., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab082 [details] Available for editors

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Potamonautes loveni (Colosi, 1924))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Potamonautes loveni) (from synonym Potamonautes loveni (Colosi, 1924))
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Potamonautes loveni (Colosi, 1924))
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) (from synonym Potamonautes loveni (Colosi, 1924))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Potamonautes loveni (Colosi, 1924))