Biology:Xanthidae

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Short description: Family of crabs

Xanthidae
Xantho poressa 2009 G2.jpg
Xantho poressa
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Superfamily: Xanthoidea
Family: Xanthidae
Macleay, 1838 [1]
Subfamilies
  • Actaeinae Alcock, 1898
  • Antrocarcininae Ng & D. G. B. Chia, 1994
  • Chlorodiellinae Ng & Holthuis, 2007
  • Cymoinae Alcock, 1898
  • Etisinae Ortmann, 1893
  • Euxanthinae Alcock, 1898
  • Glyptoxanthinae Mendoza & Guinot, 2011
  • Kraussiinae Ng, 1993
  • Liomerinae T. Sakai, 1976
  • Polydectinae Dana, 1851
  • Speocarcininae Števčić, 2005
  • Xanthinae MacLeay, 1838
  • Zalasiinae Serène, 1968
  • Zosiminae Alcock, 1898

Xanthidae is a family of crabs known as gorilla crabs, mud crabs, pebble crabs or rubble crabs.[1] 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.[2][better source needed] 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.[2][better source needed]

Classification

Many species formerly included in the family Xanthidae have since been moved to new families. Despite this, Xanthidae is still the largest crab family in terms of species richness, with 572 species in 133 genera divided among the thirteen subfamilies:[3]


References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q648406 entry