Platythelphusa is a genus of freshwater crabs endemic to Lake Tanganyika. It has been placed in a number of families, including a monotypic family, Platythelphusidae...

omnivores, although a small number are specialist predators, such as Platythelphusa armata from Lake Tanganyika, which feeds almost entirely on snails....

and evolutionary pressure from snail-eating fish and, in particular, Platythelphusa crabs. A total of 17 freshwater snail genera are endemic to the lake...

Hafferia immaculata, a species of antbird in South and Central America Platythelphusa immaculata, a species of freshwater crabs endemic to Lake Tanganyika...

Erimetopus Rathbun, 1894 Foza Dai & Bo, 1994 Liberonautes Bott, 1955 Platythelphusa A. Milne-Edwards, 1887 Potamonautes MacLeay, 1838 Potamonemus Cumberlidge...

Tanganyika, where it is the only freshwater crab outside the genus Platythelphusa. Although primarily aquatic, P. platynotus is sometimes seen out of...

to about 1.6 cm (0.6 in), although P. kantsyore of Kagera River, and Platythelphusa maculata and P. polita of Lake Tanganyika are almost as small. The only...

a tangle-web spider Platysticta maculata, a closed wing damselfly Platythelphusa maculata, a freshwater crab Pleione maculata, a Himalayan crocus Pleurobranchaea...

as cichlid fish (shell dwellers), and freshwater crabs of the genus Platythelphusa. Juvenile snails live in the sediment in order to avoid predators. Smith...

antongilensis Platythelphusa armata Platythelphusa conculcata Platythelphusa denticulata Platythelphusa echinata Platythelphusa immaculata Platythelphusa maculata...

leonensis Erimetopus vandenbrandeni Malagasya goodmani Marojejy longimerus Platythelphusa praelongata Potamonautes acristatus Potamonautes adeleae Potamonautes...

leonensis Erimetopus vandenbrandeni Malagasya goodmani Marojejy longimerus Platythelphusa praelongata Potamonautes acristatus Potamonautes adeleae Potamonautes...