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Arachnothelphusa
Arachnothelphusa is a genus of highly specialised, semi-terrestrial freshwater crabs in the family Gecarcinucidae. Established by Peter K. L. Ng in 1991, their name translates roughly to "spider-crab," referring to their unusually long, slender ambulatory legs. Strictly endemic to the island of Borneo, their distribution spans across the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, as well as the Indonesian province of Kalimantan. They have largely abandoned rivers for extreme micro-habitats; several species are exclusively arboreal and...
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Arachnothelphusa terrapes
speciesArachnothelphusa terrapes
Arachnothelphusa kadamaiana
speciesArachnothelphusa kadamaiana
Arachnothelphusa melanippe
speciesArachnothelphusa melanippe
Arachnothelphusa rhadamanthysi
speciesArachnothelphusa rhadamanthysi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 86587.