XANTHIDAE MacLeay, 1838

Muñoz, Isabel, García-Isarch, Eva & Cuesta, Jose A., 2021, Annotated and updated checklist of marine crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) of Mozambique supported by morphological and molecular data from shelf and slope species of the “ MOZAMBIQUE ” surveys, Zootaxa 5056 (1), pp. 1-67 : 46

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Family XANTHIDAE MacLeay, 1838

The Xanthidae is a broad family, which according to Davie et al. (2015c), includes 129 genera and 629 species. Thirty of these genera are present in waters of Southern Africa ( Serène 1984; Ng et al. 2008; Poupin 2010). The majority of xanthid species inhabit intertidal areas ( Guinot & Macpherson 1988) and only two species have been cited by Emmerson (2016c) in waters deeper than 100m, Actaea savignii (H. Milne Edwards) and Gaillardiellus rueppelli (Krauss) .

References

Emmerson, W. D. (2016 c). A guide to, and checklist for, the Decapoda of Namibia, South Africa and Mozambique. Vol. 3. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 711 pp.

Guinot, D. & Macpherson, E. (1988) Remarques sur le genre Monodaeus Guinot, 1967, avec la description de deux especes nouvelles (Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura). Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Series 4, Section A, 10 (4), 731 - 757.

MacLeay, W. S. (1838) On the brachyurus Crustacea brought from the Cape by Dr Smith. In: Smith Elder & Co. (Eds.), Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa, 5, Invertebratae. Smith Elder & Co., London, pp. 53 - 71.

Ng, P. K. L., Guinot, D. & Davie, P. J. F. (2008) Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 17, 1 - 286.

Poupin, J. (2010) Biodiversite de l'Indo-Pacifique tropical francais 2514 especes de crustaces decapodes et stomatopodes. Rapport scientifique de l'Institut de Recherche de l'Ecole Navale. 76 pp.

Serene, R. (1984) Crustaces Decapodes Brachyoures de l'Ocean Indien occidental et de la Mer Rouge. Xanthoidea: Xanthidae et Trapeziidae. Addendum Carpiliidae et Menippidae, A. Crosnier. Faune tropicale, 24, 1 - 400.