Glyptoxanthus

Glyptoxanthus is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:[1] It was originally erected by Alphonse Milne-Edwards in 1879 for six species previously placed in the genus Actaea and elsewhere.[2] Although previously included in subfamily Euxanthinae, the genus has a quite distinct morphology from other genera in that group, and was placed in 2011 in the new, monotypic subfamily, Glyptoxanthinae by Jose Christopher Mendoza and Danièle Guinot.[2]

  • Glyptoxanthus angolensis (Brito Capello, 1866)
  • Glyptoxanthus cavernosus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1878)
  • Glyptoxanthus corrosus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1869)
  • Glyptoxanthus erosus (Stimpson, 1859)
  • Glyptoxanthus hancocki Garth, 1939
  • Glyptoxanthus labyrinthicus (Stimpson, 1860)
  • Glyptoxanthus meandricus (Klunzinger, 1913)
  • Glyptoxanthus vermiculatus (Lamarck, 1818)

Glyptoxanthus
Glyptoxanthus erosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Xanthidae
Subfamily: Glyptoxanthinae
Mendoza & Guinot, 2011
Genus: Glyptoxanthus
A. Milne-Edwards, 1879
Type species
Actaea erosa
Stimpson, 1859

References
  1. 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
  2. Jose Christopher E. Mendoza & Danièle Guinot (2011). "Revision of the genus Glyptoxanthus A. Milne-Edwards, 1879, and establishment of Glyptoxanthinae nov. subfam. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae)" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa. 3015: 29–51.


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