Xanthoidea

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Brachyura
Sectio: Eubrachyura
Subsectio: Heterotremata
Superfamilia: Xanthoidea
Familiae: Carpiliidae - Domeciidae - Eumedonidae - Hexapodidae - Linnaeoxanthidae - Menippidae - Panopeidae - Pilumnidae - Platyxanthidae - Pseudorhombilidae - Tetraliidae - Trapeziidae - Xanthidae

• Genera incertae sedis: †Gwana – †Syphaxiella
  

Name

• Xanthidae MacLeay, 1838

References

• Castro, P.; Ng, P.K.L.; Ahyong, S.T. 2004: Phylogeny and systematics of the Trapeziidae Miers, 1886 (Crustacea: Brachyura), with the description of a new family. Zootaxa, 643: 1–70. Abstract & excerpt
• Al-Haj, A.E., Kumar, A.A.J., El-Sherbiny, M.M., Al-Sofyani, A., Crosby, M.P. & Al-Aidaroos, A.M. 2019. Descriptions of the first zoeas of ten xanthid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Xanthoidea) from the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Zootaxa 4686(3): 301–345. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4686.3.1 Reference page. 
• Karasawa, H.; Schweitzer, C.E. 2006: A new classification of the Xanthoidea sensu lato (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) based on phylogenetic analysis and traditional systematics and evaluation of all fossil Xanthoidea sensu lato. Contributions to zoology (The Hague), 75: 23–73.