Neil Cumberlidge

Neil Cumberlidge, US carcinologist

• Department of Biology, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI, USA

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 32 taxon names authored by Neil Cumberlidge

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1992

• Cumberlidge, N. & Clark, P.F. 1992. A new genus and species of freshwater crab from Cameroon, West Africa (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology) 58(2): 149-156. full article (BHL). Reference page. 

1998

• Cumberlidge, N. 1998. The African and Madagascan freshwater crabs in the Zoologische Staatssammlung, Munich (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamoidea). Spixiana 21(3): 193–214. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2004

• Cumberlidge, N. & Vannini, M. 2004: Ecology and taxonomy of a tree-living freshwater crab (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae) from Kenya and Tanzania, East Africa. Journal of Natural History 38(6): 681-693. DOI: 10.1080/0022293021000041716 Reference page. 
• Marijnissen, S., Schram, F., Cumberlidge, N. & Michel, E. 2004. Two new species of Platythelphusa A. Milne-Edwards, 1887 (Decapoda, Potamoidea, Platythelphusidae) and comments on the taxonomic position of P. denticulata Capart, 1952 from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. Crustaceana 77(5): 513–532. DOI: 10.1163/1568540041717984 JSTOR Reference page. 

2006

• Cumberlidge, N. & Tavares, M. 2006. Remarks on the freshwater crabs of Angola, southwestern Africa, with the description of Potamonautes kensleyi, new species (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 26: 248–257. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2010

• Cumberlidge, N. & Clark, P.F. 2010. Two new species of freshwater crabs from Mount Elgon, East Africa (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae) and a rediagnosis of Potamonautes niloticus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) with notes on their natural history and onchocerciasis. Journal of Natural History 44(29-30): 1807-1829. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2011

• Cumberlidge, N. & Meyer, K.S. 2011. The freshwater crabs of Lake Kivu (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamonautidae). Journal of Natural History 45(29-30): 1835-1857. Reference page. 
• Meyer, K.S. & Cumberlidge, N. 2011. A revision of the freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamonautidae) of the Lake Kivu drainage basin in Central and East Africa. Zootaxa 3011: 45–58. Preview. Reference page. 

2014

• Meyer, K.S., Cumberlidge, N. & Koppin, J.C. 2014. A new genus and species of freshwater crab from Madagascar (Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamoidea, Potamonautidae). Zootaxa 3884(1): 65–72. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.1.5 Reference page. 

2015

• Cumberlidge, N. 2015: Redescriptions of three species of freshwater crabs from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central Africa (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae). Zootaxa 3973(1): 119–138. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3973.1.4. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

2016

• Cumberlidge, N., Naskrecki, P. & Daniels, S.R. 2016. Potamonautes gorongosa, a new species of potamonautid freshwater crab (Decapoda, Brachyura) from Mozambique, southeastern Africa. Nauplius 24. Reference page. .

2017

• Cumberlidge, N. 2017. Potamonautes nheenae, a new species of freshwater crab from Gabon, Central Africa, with a description of the first known male of Erimetopus brazzae (A. Milne-Edwards, 1886) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae). Zootaxa 4286(2): 228–240. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.2.6. Reference page. 
• Mvogo Ndongo, P.A., Rintelen, T. von, Schubart, C.D., Albrecht, C., Tamesse, J.L. & Cumberlidge, N. 2017. New data on the taxonomy, ecology, and conservation of the rediscovered Louisea edeaensis (Bott, 1969) (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae), an endangered freshwater crab from Cameroon. Zootaxa 4231(2): 273–280. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4231.2.9. Reference page. 
• Mvogo Ndongo, P.A.M., Schubart, C.D., von Rintelen, T., Tamesse, J.L. & Cumberlidge, N. 2017a. Morphological and molecular evidence for a new species of freshwater crab of the genus Sudanonautes Bott, 1955 (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae) from Cameroon, with notes on its ecology. Zootaxa 4242(1): 161–173. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4242.1.8. Reference page. 
• Mvogo Ndongo, P.A., Cumberlidge, N., Poettinger, T.S., von Rintelen, T., Tamesse, J.L. & Schubart, C.D. 2017b. Molecular evidence for the assignment of the Cameroonian freshwater crab genus Louisea Cumberlidge, 1994, to the Afrotropical subfamily Potamonautinae Bott, 1970 (Crustacea: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae). Zootaxa 4286(3): 439–444. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.3.12. Reference page. 

2018

• Ndongo, P.A.M., von Rintelen, T., Albrecht, C., Tamesse, J.L. & Cumberlidge, N. 2018. Lost species in Cameroon: rediscovery of the endangered freshwater crab, Louisea balssi (Bott, 1959) (Brachyura: Potamonautidae), with notes on its ecology and conservation. Zootaxa 4394(3): 407–416. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.3.6 Reference page. 

2019

• Ndongo, P.A.M., von Rintelen, T. & Cumberlidge, N. 2019. Taxonomic revision of the endemic Cameroonian freshwater crab genus Louisea Cumberlidge, 1994 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamonautidae), with descriptions of two new species from Nkongsamba and Yabassi. ZooKeys, 881: 135–164. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.881.36744 Reference page. 

2021

• Ndongo, P.A., von Rintelen, T. & Cumberlidge, N. 2021. A new species of the freshwater crab genus Potamonemus Cumberlidge & Clark, 1992 (Crustacea, Potamonautidae) endemic to the forested highlands of southwestern Cameroon, Central Africa. Zookeys 1017: 127–141. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1017.60990 Reference page. 

2022

• Ndongo, P.A.M., von Rintelen, T., Clark, P.F., Shahdadi, A., Tchietchui, C.R. & Cumberlidge, N. 2022. Phylogenetic relationships among the species of the Cameroonian endemic freshwater crab genus Louisea Cumberlidge, 1994 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Potamonautidae), with notes on intraspecific morphological variation within two threatened species. Zookeys 1122ː 125–143. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1122.85791 Reference page.