Globonautes

Globonautes macropus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Potamonautidae
Genus: Globonautes
Bott, 1959
Species: G. macropus
Binomial name
Globonautes macropus
(Rathbun, 1898)

Globonautes macropus is a species of crab in the family Potamonautidae, the only species in the genus Globonautes.[1] It is found in Guinea and Liberia and presumably in Sierra Leone, and is listed as an endangered species on the IUCN Red List.[2] It lives in tree hollows filled with water, in closed-canopy rainforest.[2]

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