Potamoidea is a superfamily of
freshwater crab
Around 1,300 species of freshwater crabs are distributed throughout the tropics and subtropics, divided among eight family (biology), families. They show direct development and maternal care of a small number of offspring, in contrast to marine c ...
s, comprising the two families
Potamidae and
Potamonautidae.
Two previously recognised families, Deckeniidae and Platythelphusidae, are now treated as parts of the family Potamonautidae.
References
Crabs
Arthropod superfamilies
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