Potamonautes is a genus of freshwater crabs in the family Potamonautidae. It contains the following species:
- Potamonautes adeleae
- Potamonautes alluaudi
- Potamonautes aloysiisabaudiae
- Potamonautes amalerensis
- Potamonautes antheus
- Potamonautes anchietae
- Potamonautes ballayi
- Potamonautes bayonianus
- Potamonautes berardi
- Potamonautes dubius
- Potamonautes bipartitus
- Potamonautes brincki
- Potamonautes calcaratus
- Potamonautes clarus
- Potamonautes depressus
- Potamonautes dybowskii
- Potamonautes dentatus
- Potamonautes didieri
- 'Potamonautes dubius
- Potamonautes ecorssei
- Potamonautes emini
- Potamonautes gerdalensis
- Potamonautes granularis
- Potamonautes idjiwiensis
- Potamonautes ignestii
- Potamonautes infravallatus
- Potamonautes jeanneli
- Potamonautes johnstoni
- Potamonautes kensleyi
- Potamonautes langi
- Potamonautes lirrangensis
- Potamonautes lividus
- Potamonautes loashiensis
- Potamonautes loveni
- Potamonautes loveridgei
- Potamonautes lueboensis
- Potamonautes machadoi
- Potamonautes macrobrachii
- Potamonautes margaritarius
- Potamonautes montivagus
- Potamonautes mutandensis
- Potamonautes neumanni
- Potamonautes niloticus
- Potamonautes obesus
- Potamonautes odhneri
- Potamonautes paecilei
- Potamonautes parvicorpus
- Potamonautes parvispina
- Potamonautes perlatus
- Potamonautes preparvus
- Potamonautes pilosus
- Potamonautes platycentron
- Potamonautes platynotus
- Potamonautes punctatus
- Potamonautes raybouldi
- Potamonautes reidi
- Potamonautes rodolphianus
- Potamonautes rothschildi
- Potamonautes rukwanzi
- Potamonautes schubotzi
- Potamonautes semilunaris
- Potamonautes senegalensis
- Potamonautes sidneyi
- Potamonautes stanleyensis
- Potamonautes suprasulcatus
- Potamonautes triangulus
- Potamonautes unispinus
- Potamonautes unisulcatus
- Potamonautes walderi
- Potamonautes warreni
- Potamonautes xiphoidus
One extant species is also known from the fossil record; P. niloticus is abundant in Miocene sediments (6 million years ago) of Lake Albert. Extinct species assigned to Potamonautes are also known from the Late Cretaceous of Niger.
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