Zosimus (crab)

Zosimus
Zosimus aeneus - An Atauro crab
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Xanthidae
Subfamily:	Zosiminae
Genus:	Zosimus Leach, 1818
Type species
Cancer aeneus Linnaeus, 1758

Zosimus is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species: ^[1]

• Zosimus actaeoides (A. Milne Edwards, 1867)
• Zosimus aeneus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Zosimus fissa (Henderson, 1893)
• Zosimus hawaiiensis (Rathbun, 1906)
• Zosimus laevis Dana, 1852
• Zosimus maculatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Zosimus sculptus (De Man, 1888)

Three species are known from the fossil record, including two which are extinct. ^[2]

References

1. 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 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2011-06-08– via the National University of Singapore.
2. 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 2011-06-08.