Pseudothelphusidae

Taxobox

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image_caption = "Fredius platycanthus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
infraordo = Brachyura
superfamilia = Pseudothelphusoidea
superfamilia_authority = Ortmann, 1893 ITIS|ID=621513|taxon=Pseudothelphusidae]
familia = Pseudothelphusidae
familia_authority = Ortmann, 1893
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision =
*"Chaceus"
*"Epilobocera"
*"Eudaniela"
*"Fredius"
*"Hypolobocera"
*"Kinglseya"
*"Lindacatalina"
*"Microthelphusa"
*"Moritschus"
*"Neostrengeria"
*"Odontothelphusa"
*"Phallangothelphusa"
*"Phrygiopilus"
*"Potamocarcinus"
*"Ptychophallus"
*"Strengeriana"
*"Tehuana"
*"Villalobosus"

Psueodhtlephusidae is a family of freshwater crabs found chiefly in mountain streams in the Neotropics cite journal |quotes=no |journal=Hydrobiologia |volume=94 |issue=3 |year=1982 |doi=10.1007/BF00016411 |pages=294 |author=H. J. Dumont |title=Book review: "Les crabes d'eau douce d'Amerique" by G. Rodriguez |url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/x6524u4n0v750526/] . They are believed to have originated in the Greater Antilles and then crossed to Central America via a Pliocene land bridge .

Pseudothlepshusids are of significance to humans because many species are secondary hosts for lung flukes of the genus "Paragonimus" cite journal |quotes=no |url=http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rbzool/v22n2/25136.pdf |title=Recent advances in the biology of the Neotropical freshwater crab family Psuedothelphusidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) |author=Gilberto Rodríguez & Célio Magalhães |year=2005 |journal=Revista Brasileira de Zoologia |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=354–365] . Predators of pseuthelphusid crabs include the yellow-spotted river turtle and the tufted capuchin .

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