A brief history of freshwater crab research

Abstract

The history of the study of the biology of freshwater crabs is described from the first records in ancient Greece up to the present day. Today, hundreds of scientists from all parts of the world are engaged in the study of all aspects of freshwater crab biology from field studies of their ecology to molecular studies of their systematics and genetics. The first mention of the occurrence of freshwater crabs is by the Roman author Claudius Aelianus, then Aristoteles, Belon, Linne, A. Milne-Edwards, James wood-Mason, Mary Jane Rathbun, Major Alfred Alcock, Stanley Kemp, Jean Roux, Heinrich Balss, and Richard Bott in Europe developed the study.