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Round Crabs
Xanthidae
Xanthidae is a family of crabs known as mud crabs, pebble crabs or rubble crabs. Xanthid crabs are often brightly coloured and are poisonous, containing toxins which are not destroyed by cooking and for which no antidote is known. 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.
13 branches of this family, most-observed first
Xanthinae
subfamilyXanthinae
Zosiminae
subfamilyZosiminae
Etisinae
subfamilyEtisinae
Actaeinae
subfamilyActaeinae
Chlorodiellinae
subfamilyChlorodiellinae
Cymoinae
subfamilyCymoinae
Polydectinae
subfamilyPolydectinae
Liomerinae
subfamilyLiomerinae
Euxanthinae
subfamilyEuxanthinae
Banareiinae
subfamilyBanareiinae
Kraussiinae
subfamilyKraussiinae
Glyptoxanthinae
subfamilyGlyptoxanthinae
Mecataleptodius
genusMecataleptodius
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51176.