DNA taxonomy of the potamid freshwater crabs from Northern Africa (Decapoda, Potamidae)

The Mediterranean area, from southern Balkans to western Maghreb, is inhabited by the Potamon subgenus Euthelphusa, with three currently recognised species. The Maghrebian species P. (E.) algeriense is isolated from other Potamon species by the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara Desert, and nearly no molecular data are currently available for this taxon . Present study investigated the mtDNA and nuDNA diversity in Potamon algeriense s.l. with the...