Decanet taxon details
Platythelphusa A. Milne-Edwards, 1887
439781 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:439781)
accepted
Genus
Platythelphusa armata A. Milne-Edwards, 1887 (type by monotypy)
Limnothelphusa Cunnington, 1899 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Platythelphusa armata A. Milne-Edwards, 1887
- Species Platythelphusa conculcata Cunnington, 1907
- Species Platythelphusa denticulata Capart, 1952
- Species Platythelphusa echinata Capart, 1952
- Species Platythelphusa idjwiensis (Chace, 1942)
- Species Platythelphusa immaculata Marijnissen, Schram, Cumberlidge & Michel, 2004
- Species Platythelphusa langi (Rathbun, 1921)
- Species Platythelphusa maculata (Cunnington, 1899)
- Species Platythelphusa polita Capart, 1952
- Species Platythelphusa praelongata Marijnissen, Schram, Cumberlidge & Michel, 2004
- Species Platythelphusa tuberculata Capart, 1952
Milne-Edwards, A. (1887). Observations sur les crabes des eaux douces de l'Afrique. <em>Annales des Sciences naturelles, Zoologie, Paris, ser. 7.</em> 4(4-6): 121-149; Pls. 7-9. [details] 
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Platythelphusa A. Milne-Edwards, 1887. Accessed at: https://www.decanet.info/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=439781 on 2025-09-13
original description
Milne-Edwards, A. (1887). Observations sur les crabes des eaux douces de l'Afrique. <em>Annales des Sciences naturelles, Zoologie, Paris, ser. 7.</em> 4(4-6): 121-149; Pls. 7-9. [details]
original description (of Limnothelphusa Cunnington, 1899) Cunnington, W.A. (1899). On a new brachyurous crustacean from Lake Tanganyika. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1899(3): 697-704: Pl. XXXVIII. [details]
additional source 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. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 194(4): 1268–1311., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab082 [details] Available for editors
original description (of Limnothelphusa Cunnington, 1899) Cunnington, W.A. (1899). On a new brachyurous crustacean from Lake Tanganyika. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1899(3): 697-704: Pl. XXXVIII. [details]
additional source 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. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 194(4): 1268–1311., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab082 [details] Available for editors