Potamon ibericum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Potamidae
- Genus
- Potamon
- Species
- Potamon ibericum
- Scientific Name
- Potamon ibericum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Potamon ibericum
The Iberian freshwater crab (Potamon ibericum) is a Eurasian species of freshwater crab. It is an omnivore that feeds on land, but returns regularly to the water, and can survive short periods of drought in burrows and under stones. Its natural range stretches from north-eastern Greece, around both sides of the Black Sea and to beyond the Caspian Sea; populations have also been introduced to southern France. It is included as a near threatened species on the IUCN Red List, and is included in the Red Data Book for Ukraine.
...Potamon ibericum in languages:
- Arabic
- سرطان المياه العذبة الايبيري
- Arabic
- سلطعون المياه العذبة الايبيري
- English
- Iberian Freshwater Crab
- French
- Crabe bleu de Turquie
- German
- Kaukasische Süßwasserkrabbe
- Russian
- Пресноводный краб крымский
- Ukrainian
- Краб прісноводний
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Potamon algeriense
- Potamon bileki
- Potamon bilobatum
- Potamon elbursi
- Potamon fluviatile
- Potamon gedrosianum
- Potamon hippocratis
- Potamon hueceste
- Potamon ibericum
- Potamon ilam
- Potamon karpathos
- Potamon kretaion
- Potamon magnum
- Potamon mesopotamicum
- Potamon pelops
- Potamon persicum
- Potamon potamios
- Potamon rhodium
- Potamon ruttneri
- Potamon setigerum
- Potamon strouhali


































































































































