Syntripsa

Syntripsa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Parathelphusidae
Genus:	Syntripsa Chia & Ng, 2006
Type species
Syntripsa matannensis^[1]

Syntripsa is a genus of freshwater crabs found in lakes on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.^[1]

Species

There are two species in this genus:^[1]

Syntripsa flavichela Chia & Ng, 2006
Syntripsa matannensis (Schenkel, 1902)

References

1 2 3 Chia, Oliver KS, and Peter KL Ng. "The freshwater crabs of Sulawesi, with descriptions of two new genera and four new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Parathelphusidae)." (2006).

Further reading

Schubart, Christoph D., Tobias Santl, and Peter Koller. "Mitochondrial patterns of intra-and interspecific differentiation among endemic freshwater crabs of ancient lakes in Sulawesi." Contributions to Zoology 77.2 (2008): 83-90.
Schubart, Christoph D., and Peter KL Ng. "A new molluscivore crab from Lake Poso confirms multiple colonization of ancient lakes in Sulawesi by freshwater crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura)." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 154.2 (2008): 211-221.
Poettinger, Theodor, and Christoph D. Schubart. "Molecular diversity of freshwater crabs from Sulawesi and the sequential colonization of ancient lakes." Hydrobiologia 739.1 (2014): 73-84.

External links

Syntripsa at the Encyclopedia of Life
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