''Nanhaipotamon wupingense'', the Wuping crab, is a species of freshwater crab in the genus ''
Nanhaipotamon
''Nanhaipotamon'' is a genus of freshwater crabs, in the subfamily Potamiscinae, found in southern China and Taiwan. As of 2018, 18 species have been described. The genus is named after the South China Sea (; literally: 'South Sea'), for it oc ...
'', known only to inhabit the locality of Xiaba in
Wuping County
Wuping (; Hakka: Vú-phìn) is a county in of southwestern Fujian province, People's Republic of China, bordering Guangdong to the south and Jiangxi to the west. It is under the administration of Longyan City.
Administration
The county executive, ...
,
Fujian Province
Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its cap ...
,
China, and formerly believed to have a
disjunct population in
Macao
Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a po ...
. First described in 2003, the type specimen was subsequently lost, and with the crab not having been described initially in sufficient detail, an effort was made in 2018 to redescribe the species using a specimen collected in Macao. This study, however, concluded that the Macao population was actually a different species, ''
Nanhaipotamon macau
''Nanhaipotamon macau'', the Coloane hill crab, is a species of freshwater crab found solely in twelve hill streams on the island of Coloane in Macao. A member of the genus Nanhaipotamon, it was first described in December 2018 and is closely r ...
'', endemic to the country.
References
The freshwater crabs of Macau, with the description of a new species of Nanhaipotamon Bott, 1968 and the redescription of Nanhaipotamon wupingense Cheng, Yang, Zhong & Li, 2003 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Potamidae)
Potamoidea
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