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Mary Jane Rathbun was an American zoologist who specialized in crustaceans. She worked at the Smithsonian Institution from 1884 until her death. She described more than a thousand new species and subspecies and many higher taxa.
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.
Liocarpiloides is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:
Euxanthus is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae.
Hypocolpus is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:
Medaeus 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:
Cyrtocarcinus truncatus is a species of crab in the family Xanthidae that lives in the waters around Hawaii. It was described in 1906 by Mary J. Rathbun as Harrovia truncata, based on a single immature male specimen caught near Kauai. Masatsune Takeda transferred the species to his new genus Glyptocarcinus in 1979, and Peter Ng and Diana Chia erected a new genus, Cyrtocarcinus, for this species alone, in 1994.
Edwardsium is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:
Cataleptodius is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:
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. Since then, several more species of this genus have been identified and described, and Euryxanthops currently contains:
Garthiope is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:
Gonopanope is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:
Jacforus cavatus is a species of crab in the monotypic genus Jacforus in the family Xanthidae.
Lachnopodus 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:
Microcassiope is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:
Micropanope is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing one exclusively fossil species and the following species:
Nanocassiope 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:
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.
- 1 2 Peter K. L. Ng & Paul F. Clark (2003). "Three new genera of Indo-West Pacific Xanthidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Xanthoidea)" (PDF). Zoosystema . 25 (1): 131–147. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-19.
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