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Xanthidae

Xanthidae
Xantho poressa
Scientific classification
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 familyofcrabs known as gorilla crabs, mud crabs, pebble crabsorrubble 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]}

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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]

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External links[edit]

• Media related to Xanthidae at Wikimedia Commons