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Xanthidae is a family of crabs known as gorilla crabs, mud crabs, pebble crabs or rubble crabs. Xanthid crabs are often brightly coloured and are highly poisonous, containing toxins which are not destroyed by cooking and for which no antidote is known. The toxins are similar to the tetrodotoxin and saxitoxin produced by puffer fish, and may be produced by bacteria in the genus Vibrio living in symbiosis with the crabs, mostly V. alginolyticus and V. parahaemolyticus.
Libinia is a genus of crabs in the family Epialtidae, containing twelve extant species:
Portunidae is a family of crabs which contains the swimming crabs.
Macrophthalmus is a genus of crabs which are widespread across the Indo-Pacific. It contains the following species :
Herbstia is a genus of crabs, containing the following eleven species:
Pilumnoidea is a superfamily of crabs, whose members were previously included in the Xanthoidea. The three families are unified by the free articulation of all the segments of the male crab's abdomen and by the form of the gonopods. The earliest fossils assigned to this group are of Eocene age.
Etisus is a genus of crabs, containing the following extant species:
Inachidae is a family of crabs, containing 39 genera:
Macropodia is a genus of crabs, belonging to the family Inachidae. It contains the following species:
Epialtinae is a subfamily of crabs, containing the following genera:
Acanthonyx dentatus, the toothed decorator crab, is a species of crab in the family Inachidae.
Geograpsus is a genus of crabs in the family Grapsidae, containing four extant species, and one extinct species:
Chlorodiella is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:
Cyclodius is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:
Liomera is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:
Leptodius is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:
Xanthias is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing two exclusively fossil species and the following extant species:
Lophozozymus is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:
Geryonidae is a family of crabs, including the following genera and species:
References
- ↑ Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . 17: 1–286. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
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