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FIGURE 7. A–F in On the taxonomic status of two large species of East African freshwater crabs: Arcopotamonautes johnstoni (Miers, 1885) from Mount Kilimanjaro and A. platycentron (Hilgendorf, 1897) from Lake Chala (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae)

  • 1. Department of Biology, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI 49855-5376, USA.
  • 2. Department of Botany and Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1 Matieland, 7602 South Africa.
  • 3. Invertebrate Zoology Section, National Museums of Kenya, P.O. Box 40658-00100, Nairobi, Kenya.

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FIGURE 7. A–F, Arcopotamonautes johnstoni (Miers, 1885), A, B, holotype male (CW 54.5 mm) (NHM 1885.2), Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania; C, D, adult male (CW 71.6 mm) (NMU 1966.05); E, F, adult female (CW 84.1 mm) (NMU 1966.05), from West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania; G–H, Arcopotamonautes platycentron (Hilgendorf, 1897) subadult male (CW 51.7 mm) (NMU TRW1971.12), from Lake Chala, near Taveta, Kenya. A, C, E, G, frontal view of right chela; B, D, F, H, frontal view of left chela. Scale bars: A, B = 8.0 mm; C, D = 11.1 mm; E, F = 8.2 mm; G, H = 12.7 mm.

Notes

Published as part of Cumberlidge, Neil, Daniels, Savel R., Kipyegon, John K. & Galaszewski, Taylor, 2026, On the taxonomic status of two large species of East African freshwater crabs: Arcopotamonautes johnstoni (Miers, 1885) from Mount Kilimanjaro and A. platycentron (Hilgendorf, 1897) from Lake Chala (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae), pp. 369-386 in Zootaxa 5748 (3) on page 379, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5748.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/19168543

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