| Arcopotamonautes raybouldi | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Potamonautidae |
| Genus: | Arcopotamonautes |
| Species: | A. raybouldi |
| Binomial name | |
| Arcopotamonautes raybouldi Cumberlidge & Vannini, 2004 | |
Arcopotamonautes raybouldi is a species of freshwater crab. It lives in water-filled tree holes in forests in the eastern Usambara Mountains of Tanzania and the Shimba Hills in Kenya. It is threatened by deforestation resulting from the expansion of the human population, and is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List. The species was described in 2004, and named after Professor John N. Raybould of the University of Bristol, who collected the first specimens of the species.
References
- ^ Cumberlidge, N. (2008). "Potamonautes raybouldi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T44539A10916902. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T44539A10916902.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- Neil Cumberlidge & Marco Vannini (2004). "Ecology and taxonomy of a tree-living freshwater crab (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae) from Kenya and Tanzania, East Africa" (PDF). Journal of Natural History. 38 (6): 681–693. doi:10.1080/0022293021000041716. S2CID 84539824. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-08-02.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Potamonautes raybouldi | |
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