Zosimus (genus)

Zosimus is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:[1]

  • Zosimus actaeoides (A. Milne Edwards, 1867)
  • Zosimus aeneus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Zosimus fissa (Henderson, 1893)
  • Zosimus hawaiiensis (Rathbun, 1906)
  • Zosimus laevis Dana, 1852
  • Zosimus maculatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Zosimus sculptus (De Man, 1888)

Zosimus
Zosimus aeneus - An Atauro crab
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Xanthidae
Subfamily: Zosiminae
Genus: Zosimus
Leach, 1818
Type species
Cancer aeneus
Linnaeus, 1758

Three species are known from the fossil record, including two which are extinct.[2]

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.
  2. Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.


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