Family Xanthidae MacLeay 1838 (stone crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Xanthidae

Full reference: W. S. MacLeay. 1838. On the Brachyurous Decapod Crustacea brought from the Cape by Dr. Smith. In Illustrations of the Annulosa of South Africa; being a portion of the objects of Natural History chiefly collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, under the direction of Dr. Andrew Smith, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by "The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa". 53-71

Parent taxon: Xanthoidea according to J. M. Wolfe et al. 2019

See also Collins et al. 2003, Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen 1992, Feldmann et al. 1995, Feldmann and Keys 1992, Feldmann et al. 2003, Karasawa and Schweitzer 2006, Luque et al. 2017, MacLeay 1838, Rathbun 1918, Rathbun 1926, Schweitzer 2005, Schweitzer et al. 2000, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2002, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Squires 1980, Squires 1999, Stenzel 1935, Tiwari et al. 1997 and Vega et al. 2001

Sister taxa: Actaeites, Actaeopsis, Caprocancer, Colpocaris, Cretachlorodius, Eoxanthias, Gwana, Megaxantho, Menippidae, Muelleroplax, Panopeidae, Paraxanthosia, Pilumnomimus, Pregeryona, Prochlorodius, Pseudorhombilidae, Syphaxiella, Tanaocheleidae, Tetraliidae, Thelphusograpsus, Woodbinax, Xanthosioides

Subtaxa: Actaeinae Bernuffius Chlorodiellinae Cymo Cymoinae Eoxanthops Etisinae Euxanthinae Haydnella Kraussiinae Liomerinae Lybia Nogarolia Paraxanthodes Polydectinae Speocarcininae Xanthinae Xanthopsis Zalasiinae Zalasius Zosiminae

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Ecology: infaunal carnivore

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