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The Iberian freshwater crab (Potamon ibericum) is a Eurasian species of freshwater crab. It is an omnivore that feeds on land, but returns regularly to the water, and can survive short periods of drought in burrows and under stones. Its natural range stretches from north-eastern Greece, around both sides of the Black Sea and to beyond the Caspian Sea; populations have also been introduced to southern France. It is included as a near threatened species on the IUCN Red List, and is included in the Red Data Book for Ukraine.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Iberian Freshwater Crab being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Potamon algeriense
- Potamon fluviatile
- Potamon pelops
- Potamon hippocratis
- Longpotamon acutum
- Longpotamon chekiangense
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Potamidae
- Genus
- Potamon
- Species
- Potamon ibericum
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