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Xantho

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Xanthidae

Taxonomy
Xantho was named by Leach (1804) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi R]. It is extant. It is the type genus of Xanthoidea, Xanthidae, Xanthinae.

It was reranked as Cancer (Xantho) by de Haan (1835).

It was assigned to Cancer by de Haan (1835); to Decapoda by Sepkoski (2002); to Xanthidae by Lorenthey (1907), Tiwari et al. (1997), Karasawa and Schweitzer (2006); and to Xanthinae by Dana (1851), Schweitzer et al. (2010), Schweitzer et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1804Xantho Leach
1835Cancer (Xantho) de Haan
1851Xantho Dana p. 125
1907Xanthus Lorenthey
1997Xantho Tiwari et al. p. 130
2002Xantho Sepkoski
2006Xantho Karasawa and Schweitzer p. 50
2010Xantho Schweitzer et al. p. 128
2021Xantho Schweitzer et al. p. 25

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—Hymenostraca(Rolfe 1969)
superclassMulticrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
classMalacostraca()
RankNameAuthor
subclassEumalacostracaGrobben 1892
—CaridoidaHessler 1982
orderDecapoda
suborderPleocyemataBurkenroad 1963
—Reptantia(Boas)
—MeiuraSaint Laurent 1980
infraorderBrachyura()
—Eubrachyurade Saint Laurent 1980
—HeterotremataGuinot 1977
superfamilyXanthoideaMacLeay 1838
familyXanthidae
subfamilyXanthinaeMacLeay 1838
genusXanthoLeach 1804

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Xantho Leach 1804
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†Xantho agassizi Robineau-Desvoidy 1849
†Xantho edwardsi Sismonda 1846
†Xantho granulosus Ruppell 1830
Xantho hydrophilus Herbst 1790
Xantho incisus Leach 1814
†Xantho lovisatoi Lorenthey 1907
†Xantho moldavicus Yanakevich 1977
†Xantho vitiensis Rathbun 1945
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: infaunalsuperf
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2022-11-16 16:35:07
Modified: 2022-11-16 16:35:07
Source: superf = superfamily, o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan 1992, Turnsek 1997, Fearon and Clapham 2023

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Albian to the top of the Holocene or 112.03000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 105.3 Ma

Collections (30 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Albian - Middle Albian112.03 - 105.3France (Yonne) X. agassizi (146256)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Germany (Bavaria) X. sp. (10703)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 28.4Italy (Vicenza) X. sp. (147005)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97India (Mizoram) X. sp. (42760)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97India X. sp. (78641)
Langhian15.97 - 13.82Austria X. moldavicus (141124)
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608Ukraine X. moldavicus (66971)
Serravallian13.82 - 11.62Hungary X. moldavicus (34739)
Badenian13.65 - 12.7Hungary X. incisus (138128 138812 140154) X. moldavicus (133113 149366 207750 207751 207752 207753 207754 207755)
Badenian13.65 - 12.7Poland X. moldavicus (139755)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Malta X. moldavicus (131977) X. sp. (140979)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Fiji Plagiolophus vitiensis (136142) X. acutispinus, Plagiolophus vitiensis (68181)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Spain X. sp. (215657)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Spain X. sp. (215740)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Mexico X. lamellipes, X. viltata, X. denticulata (147227)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (Califormia) X. belia (146589)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Panama X. vittata (147250)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (Washington) X. bella (146593)