Potamon est genus aquae dulcis vel semiterrestrium brachyurorum ab Europa Meridiana per Mediam Orientem ad Indiam boreo-occidentalem inventorum.[2] Septendecim species hodie agnoscuntur[1]:
- Potamon algeriense Bott, 1967
- Potamon bileki Pretzmann, 1971
- Potamon bilobatum Brandis, Storch & Türkay, 2000
- Potamon fluviatile (Herbst, 1785)
- Potamon gedrosianum Alcock, 1909
- Potamon hueceste Pretzmann, 1983
- Potamon ibericum (Bieberstein, 1808)
- Potamon magnum Pretzmann, 1962
- Potamon mesopotamicum Pretzmann, 1962
- Potamon monticola Alcock, 1910
- Potamon persicum Pretzmann, 1962
- Potamon potamios (Olivier, 1804)
- Potamon rhodium Parisi, 1913
- Potamon ruttneri Pretzmann, 1962
- Potamon setigerum Rathbun, 1904
- Potamon strouhali Pretzmann, 1962
- Potamon transcaspicum Pretzmann, 1962
Multa alia taxa brachyorum ex Indosina, olim species Potamonis appellata, nunc in aliis generibus ponuntur, sicut Himalayapotamon, Beccumon, Eosamon, et Takpotamon.[1]