Neil Cumberlidge

Neil Cumberlidge, US carcinologist

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

Taxon names authored

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• 30 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. 

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. Reference page.