Animalia > Arthropoda > Malacostraca > Decapoda > Epiloboceridae > Epilobocera > Epilobocera sinuatifrons

Epilobocera sinuatifrons

Synonyms: Boscia sinuatifrons

Wikipedia Abstract

Epilobocera sinuatifrons (Spanish common name: Buruquena) is a freshwater crab of the Pseudothelphusidae family in the Decapoda order. The species is common in the Toro Negro State Forest in central Puerto Rico. It is one of the most abundant predatory freshwater decapods. The species is widely distributed in streams of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It is endemic to the mainland of Puerto Rico.
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Predators

Gobiomorus dormitor (Bigmouth Sleeper)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Diet overlap between native bigmouth sleepers (Gobiomorus dormitor) and introduced predatory fishes in a Puerto Rico reservoir, N. M. Bacheler, J. W. Neal, R. L. Noble, Ecology of Freshwater Fish 2004: 13: 111–118
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0