Xantho

Xantho
Xantho poressa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Xanthidae
Genus:	Xantho Leach, 1814[1]
Type species
Xantho hydrophilus Leach, 1814
Species[1]
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Xantho is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing five extant species,^[2] 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:^[3]

• Xantho granulicarpus Forest, 1953
• Xantho hydrophilus (Herbst, 1790)
• Xantho pilipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1867
• Xantho poressa (Olivi, 1792)
• Xantho sexdentatus (Miers, 1881)

Five species are known from the fossil record, including one species that is still extant.^[4]

References

1. P. Davie; M. Türkay (2009). "Xantho Leach, 1814". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
2. Ng, Peter K. L.; Guinot, Danièle; Davie, Peter J. F. (January 2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2011 – via the National University of Singapore.
3. S. Reuschel & C. D. Schubart. "Phylogeny and geographic differentiation of Atlanto–Mediterranean species of the genus Xantho (Crustacea: Brachyura: Xanthidae) based on genetic and morphometric analyses". Marine Biology. 148 (4): 853–866. doi:10.1007/s00227-005-0095-1.
4. 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2011-01-12.