Perbrinckia scansor

Taxobox | name = "Perbrinckia scansor"
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
status_ref = [cite web |author=M. M. Bahir, P. K. L. Ng, K. A. Crandall & R. Pethiyagoda |year=2005 |url=http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/61734/all |title="Perbrinckia scansor" |work=IUCN Red List of Threatened Species |accessdate=2007-08-10]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
infraordo = Brachyura
familia = Parathelphusidae
genus = "Perbrinckia"
species = "P. scansor"
binomial = "Perbrinckia scansor"
binomial_authority = (Ng, 1995) [cite journal |quotes=no |journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2005 |volume=Suppl. 12 |pages=47–75 |title=Description of ten new species of freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Parathelphusidae: "Ceylonthelphusa", "Mahatha", "Perbrinckia") from Sri Lanka |author=Mohomed M. Bahir & Peter K. L. Ng |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s12/s12rbz047-075.pdf]
synonyms = nowrap|"Ceylonthelphusa scansor" Ng, 1995

"Perbrinckia scansor" is a species of freshwater crab in the family Parathelphusidae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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