Glyptoxanthus

Glyptoxanthus is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing eight 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
Glyptoxanthus erosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Xanthidae
Subfamily:	Glyptoxanthinae Mendoza & Guinot, 2011
Genus:	Glyptoxanthus A. Milne-Edwards, 1879
Type species
Actaea erosa Stimpson, 1859

Species

• 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)