''Epilobocera sinuatifrons'' ''Bosques de Puerto Rico: Bosque Estatal de Toro Negro.''
Hojas de Nuestro Ambiente. July 2008. ublication/Issue: P-030Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. Retrieved 24 September 2013. is a

freshwater Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Although the term specifically excludes seawater and brackish water, it does include ...

crab Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (abdomen) ( el, βραχύς , translit=brachys = short, / = tail), usually hidden entirely under the thorax. They live in all the ...

''Physical and chemical factors affecting the upstream migration of amphidromous shrimp in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico.''
D.A. Kikkert, T.A. Crowl, and A.P. Covich. Society for Freshwater Science. 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2013. of the family Epiloboceridae. The species is widely distributed in streams of

Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and Unincorporated ...

and occurs also on

Saint Croix Saint Croix; nl, Sint-Kruis; french: link=no, Sainte-Croix; Danish and no, Sankt Croix, Taino: ''Ay Ay'' ( ) is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorpo ...

(the U.S. Virgin Islands). ''Epilobocera sinuatifrons'' is one of the most abundant predatory freshwater decapods in the freshwater streams of Puerto Rico.''Mayfly Predation by Juvenile Freshwater Crabs: Implications for Crab Habitat Selection.''
J. K. Henry, A. P. Covich, T. S. Bowden, and T. A. Crow. Society for Freshwater Science. NABStracts 2000 #446. Retrieved 24 September 2013. The juveniles are aquatic while the adults feed also on terrestrial resources on the forest floor adjacent to streams.

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sinuatifrons Freshwater crustaceans of North America Crustaceans of Puerto Rico Fauna of the United States Virgin Islands Endemic fauna of the United States Taxa named by Alphonse Milne-Edwards Crustaceans described in 1866 {{crab-stub

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