Biology:Demania

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Short description: Genus of crabs


Demania
Specimen of Demania cultripes.JPG
Demania cultripes
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Demania

Laurie, 1906

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

  • Demania alcocki Deb, 1987
  • Demania armadillus (Herbst, 1790)
  • Demania baccalipes (Alcock, 1898)
  • Demania crosnieri Serene, 1984
  • Demania cultripes (Alcock, 1898)
  • Demania garthi Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1981
  • Demania intermedia Guinot, 1969
  • Demania japonica Guinot, 1977
  • Demania mortenseni (Odhner, 1925)
  • Demania reynaudi (H. Milne Edwards, 1834)
  • Demania rotundata Serene, 1969
  • Demania scaberrima (Walker, 1887)
  • Demania serenei Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1981
  • Demania splendida Laurie, 1906
  • Demania toxica Garth, 1971
  • Demania unispinosa Chen & Ng, 1999
  • Demania wardi Garth & Ng, 1985


Many species are known to be toxic to humans and domestic animals and this genus of crabs should not be consumed.[2][3]

References

  1. 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. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf. 
  2. John S. Garth; Peter K. L. Ng (1985). "Notes on the genus Demania Laurie, 1906 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Xanthidae)" (PDF). Indo-Malayan Zoology 2: 293–308. http://isopods.nhm.org/pdfs/16149/16149.pdf. 
  3. "Human fatality due to ingestion of the crab Demania reynaudii that contained a palytoxin-like toxin". Toxicon 26 (1): 105–7. 1988. doi:10.1016/0041-0101(88)90142-0. PMID 2894726. 

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