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Potamalpheops
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Potamalpheops

Potamalpheops is a genus of shrimp in the family Alpheidae. It was originally erected by Powell in 1979 to house species from Africa. Later, Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. realised that the troglobitic shrimp he had described in 1973 from Oaxaca, Mexico as Alpheopsis stygicola, also belonged to the genus, and in 1991, A. J. Bruce described a new species from Australia, further expanding the genus' geographical range. It is now thought to represent a relict taxon...

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17 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Potamalpheops miyai

speciesPotamalpheops miyai

Potamalpheops monodi

speciesPotamalpheops monodi

Potamalpheops stygicola

speciesPotamalpheops stygicola

Potamalpheops amnicus

speciesPotamalpheops amnicus

Potamalpheops haugi

speciesPotamalpheops haugi

Potamalpheops pininsulae

speciesPotamalpheops pininsulae

Potamalpheops nazgul

speciesPotamalpheops nazgul

Potamalpheops palawanensis

speciesPotamalpheops palawanensis

Potamalpheops pylorus

speciesPotamalpheops pylorus

Potamalpheops tigger

speciesPotamalpheops tigger

Potamalpheops tyrymembe

speciesPotamalpheops tyrymembe

Potamalpheops darwiniensis

speciesPotamalpheops darwiniensis

Potamalpheops galle

speciesPotamalpheops galle

Potamalpheops hanleyi

speciesPotamalpheops hanleyi

Potamalpheops johnsoni

speciesPotamalpheops johnsoni

Potamalpheops kisi

speciesPotamalpheops kisi

Potamalpheops yamakawai

speciesPotamalpheops yamakawai

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 206798.