| Esanthelphusa | |
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| Esanthelphusa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Gecarcinucidae |
| Genus: | Esanthelphusa Naiyanetr (1994) |
Esanthelphusa [1] is a genus of freshwater crabs, found in South-East Asia.
A fiddler crab, sometimes known as a calling crab, may be any of more than one hundred species of semiterrestrial marine crabs in the family Ocypodidae. A smaller number of ghost crab and mangrove crab species are also found in the family Ocypodidae. This entire group is composed of small crabs, the largest being slightly over two inches (5 cm) across. Fiddler crabs are found along sea beaches and brackish intertidal mud flats, lagoons, swamps, and various other types of brackish or salt-water wetlands. Fiddler crabs are most well known for their sexually dimorphic claws; the males' major claw is much larger than the minor claw, while the females' claws are both the same size.
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.
Portunidae is a family of crabs which contains the swimming crabs.
The Gecarcinucidae are a family of true freshwater crabs. The family Parathelphusidae is now demoted to the rank of subfamily, as the Parathelphusinae, within the Gecarcinucidae. "Family" Parathelphusidae is now considered as a junior synonym.
Potamidae is a family of freshwater crabs. It includes more than 650 species and nearly 100 genera, which are placed into two subfamilies: Potaminae and Potamiscinae.
Geosesarma is genus of small freshwater or terrestrial crabs, typically less than 10 mm (0.4 in) across the carapace. They live and reproduce on land with the larval stages inside the egg. They are found from India, through Southeast Asia, to the Solomon Islands and Hawaii.
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.
Inachidae is a family of crabs, containing 39 genera:
Macrobrachium is a genus of freshwater prawns or shrimps characterised by the extreme enlargement of the second pair of pereiopods, at least in the male.
Mursia is a genus of crabs in the family Calappidae, containing the following species:
Palapedia is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:
Pilumnus is a genus of crabs, containing the following species:
Indochinamon is a genus of freshwater crabs, typically found in the Indo-China region.
Tiwaripotamon is a genus of freshwater crabs, recorded from China and Vietnam.
Eosamon is a genus of freshwater crabs in the subfamily Potamiscinae, found in East and South-East Asia.
Sayamia is a genus of freshwater crabs, found in South-East Asia. Three species are included on the list of least concern (lc) arthropods, but S. melanodactylus is endangered.
Mekhongthelphusa is a genus of freshwater crabs in the family Gecarcinucidae, found in South-East Asia.
Guinothusa is a genus of freshwater crabs, found in South-East Asia.
Leptomithrax is a genus of crabs in the family Majidae, first described by Edward J. Miers in 1876. They have been on Earth for 37.2 million years.
Leptuca is a genus of fiddler crabs belonging to the family Ocypodidae.
Data related to Esanthelphusa at Wikispecies