Euryxanthops

Euryxanthops
Euryxanthops cepros
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Xanthidae
Subfamily:	Xanthinae
Genus:	Euryxanthops Garth & Kim, 1983

Euryxanthops is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae. It was originally established in 1983 by Garth & Kim to contain three species of deep-water crabs from Japan and the Philippines - Euryxanthops dorsiconvexus , Euryxanthops flexidentatus and Euryxanthops orientalis . ^[1] Since then, several more species of this genus have been identified and described, and Euryxanthops currently contains: ^[2]

• Euryxanthops cepros Davie, 1997
• Euryxanthops chiltoni Ng & McLay, 2007
• Euryxanthops dorsiconvexus Garth & Kim, 1983
• Euryxanthops flexidentatus Garth & Kim, 1983
• Euryxanthops latifrons Davie, 1997
• Euryxanthops orientalis (Sakai, 1939)

References

1. McLay, Colin; Ng, Peter (2007). "Two new species of deep-water xanthid crabs of the genera Euryxanthops Garth & Kim, 1983, and Medaeops Guinot, 1967 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from New Zealand". Zootaxa (1385). Magnolia Press. ISSN   1175-5334. OCLC   49030618.
2. 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.