Potamon fluviatile northeastern Greece. In mainland Greece, "P. fluviatile" is found in the drainages of the Axios, Thyamis, Aheron and Arachthos, Pineiós, Piros-Tethreas, Pamisos and Evrotas rivers. In the Ionian Islands, "P. fluviatile" is known to occur at only one site on Corfu, as well as on Kefalonia, Lefkada and Zakynthos. In the Aegean Islands, it is found on Skiathos and Skopelos (Sporades), on Euboea and Skyros, and at a single site on Andros in the Cyclades. "Potamon fluviatile" is at the western distributional limit of the genus "Potamon". Other species in the genus occur through Eastern Europe and the Middle East,
Potamon fluviatile the larval stages inside the egg. "Potamon fluviatile" is edible, as indicated by its alternative specific epithet "edulis", and was known to the ancient Greeks; it is probably this species which they depicted on medals found at Agrigento, Sicily. More recently, the species was depicted on the 5¢ coin in the last series of Maltese coins before the introduction of the Euro there in 2007. "Potamon fluviatile" has a generalist diet, feeding on vegetable debris, scraping algae from surfaces, or preying on frogs, tadpoles, and various invertebrates, such as insect larvae, snails or worms. No predator seems to specialise on