Xantho

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Xantho
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Xantho poressa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Xanthidae
Genus: Xantho
Leach, 1814 [1]
Type species
Xantho hydrophilus
Leach, 1814
Species [1]

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Xantho is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing five extant species, [2] all restricted to the north-east Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, although Xantho granulicarpis is not universally recognised as a separate species from Xantho hydrophilus : [3]

Five species are known from the fossil record, including one species that is still extant. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 P. Davie; M. Türkay (2009). "Xantho Leach, 1814". World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  2. Ng, Peter K. L.; Guinot, Danièle; Davie, Peter J. F. (January 2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . 17: 1–286. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2011 via the National University of Singapore.
  3. S. Reuschel & C. D. Schubart. "Phylogeny and geographic differentiation of Atlanto–Mediterranean species of the genus Xantho (Crustacea: Brachyura: Xanthidae) based on genetic and morphometric analyses". Marine Biology . 148 (4): 853–866. doi:10.1007/s00227-005-0095-1.
  4. Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2011-01-12.