Xanthodius

Xanthodius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Xanthidae
Genus: Xanthodius
Stimpson, 1859

Xanthodius is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing one exclusively fossil species[1] and the following extant species:[2]

  • Xanthodius americanus (Saussure, 1858)
  • Xanthodius cooksoni (Miers, 1877)
  • Xanthodius denticulatus (White, 1848)
  • Xanthodius inaequalis (Olivier, 1791)
  • Xanthodius sternberghii Stimpson, 1859
  • Xanthodius stimpsoni (A. Milne Edwards, 1879)

References

  1. 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.
  2. 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.


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