Biology:Zosimus (crab)

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Short description: Genus of crabs

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

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. 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. Sammy De Grave et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl. 21: 1–109. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf. 

Wikidata ☰ Q8074552 entry