Xanthidae

Xanthidae is a family of crabs known as gorilla crabs, mud crabs, pebble crabs or rubble crabs. 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. 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.

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Xantho is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing five extant species, 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:

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Lybia is a genus comprising eight species of small marine crabs from the family Xanthidae. Commonly known as boxer crabs and pom-pom crabs, these crabs are famous for their symbiosis with small aquatic invertebrates, particularly sea anemones, which they hold in their specialized claws for defense, and in some cases, feeding. The genus has a diverse distribution, ranging across the Indo-Pacific and existing as early as the Middle Miocene.

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Etisus is a genus of crabs, containing the following extant species:

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Lophozozymus is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

Banareia is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

Neoliomera is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

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Liomera is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae. It contains the following species:

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Platypodia is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

Leptodius is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

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Chlorodiella is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

Pilodius is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

Paractaea is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

Palapedia is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

Lachnopodus is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

Pseudoliomera is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

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Actaeodes is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

Paraxanthias is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing one exclusively fossil species and the following extant species:

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Macromedaeus is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

Medaeus is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

Neoxanthops is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

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Juxtaxanthias is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

Liocarpilodes is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

Cataleptodius is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

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Pseudomedaeus is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

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Xanthodius is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing one exclusively fossil species and the following species:

Heteractaea is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

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Atergatopsis is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

Liagore is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, native to Australia, containing the following species:

Medaeops is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

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Psaumis is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

Euryxanthops is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae. It was originally established in 1983 by Garth & Kim to contain three species of deep-water crabs from Japan and the Philippines - Euryxanthops dorsiconvexus, Euryxanthops flexidentatus and Euryxanthops orientalis. Since then, several more species of this genus have been identified and described, and Euryxanthops currently contains:

Paraliomera is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:

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Antrocarcinus petrosus is a species of crab in the family Xanthidae, the only species in the genus Antrocarcinus.

Glyptoxanthus is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing eight species. It was originally erected by Alphonse Milne-Edwards in 1879 for six species previously placed in the genus Actaea and elsewhere. Although previously included in subfamily Euxanthinae, the genus has a quite distinct morphology from other genera in that group, and was placed in 2011 in the new, monotypic subfamily, Glyptoxanthinae by Jose Christopher Mendoza and Danièle Guinot.