Endangered
Parathelphusa pantherina
Parathelphusa pantherina
Parathelphusa pantherina is a variety of freshwater crab from Indonesia from the family of the Gecarcinucidae.
Appearance
The natural coloration of this crab is yellow to light orange, with dark-red rosettes extending from their flat carapace to the ambulatory legs. Often, they have red-tipped claws and legs, but may also show no red coloration.
Range and habitat
The species is categorized as Endangered by IUCN Red List due to damage to their habitat by mining of nickel from lake shores where they live, that negatively impacts their water quality.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Freshwater crayfishes and crabs walk the bed. Dams, silt, and introduced species cut a drainage into fragments they cannot cross.
Crayfishes and crabs need cover and clean water. A named form from one creek is not interchangeable with the next drainage.
In crisis
Parathelphusa pantherina is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Parathelphusa pantherina, Wikidata item Q14033781. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
