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{{Short description|Genus of crabs}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Xantho poressa 2009 G7.jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Xantho poressa]]''
| taxon = Xantho
| authority = [[William Elford Leach|Leach]], 1814<ref name = WoRMS_106957>{{cite web | url = http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106957 | title = ''Xantho'' Leach, 1814 | access-date = 2 April 2017 | publisher = [[World Register of Marine Species]] | author1 = P. Davie| author2 = M. Türkay | year = 2009}}</ref>
| type_species = ''[[Xantho hydrophilus]]''
| type_species_authority = Leach, 1814
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision_ref = <ref name = WoRMS_106957/>
| subdivision = See text
}}
'''''Xantho''''' is a [[genus]] of [[crab]]s in the family [[Xanthidae]], containing five extant species,<ref name="Ng">{{cite journal |last1=Ng |first1=Peter K. L. |author-link=Peter Kee Lin Ng |last2=Guinot |first2=Danièle |author-link2=Danièle Guinot |last3=Davie |first3=Peter J. F. |date=January 2008 |title=Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world |url=https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/app/uploads/2017/04/s17rbz.pdf |url-status=live |journal=[[Raffles Bulletin of Zoology]] |volume=17 |pages=1–286 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061453/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf |archive-date=6 June 2011 |access-date=8 June 2011 |via=the National University of Singapore}}</ref> all restricted to the north-east [[Atlantic Ocean]] and [[Mediterranean Sea]], although ''[[Xantho granulicarpis]]'' is not universally recognised as a separate species from ''[[Xantho hydrophilus]]'':<ref>{{cite journal |author1=S. Reuschel  |author2=C. D. Schubart  |name-list-style=amp |title=Phylogeny and geographic differentiation of Atlanto–Mediterranean species of the genus ''Xantho'' (Crustacea: Brachyura: Xanthidae) based on genetic and morphometric analyses |journal=[[Marine Biology (journal)|Marine Biology]] |volume=148 |issue=4 |pages=853–866 |doi=10.1007/s00227-005-0095-1}}</ref>
*''[[Xantho granulicarpus]]'' <small>Forest, 1953</small>
*''[[Xantho hydrophilus]]'' <small>(Herbst, 1790)</small>
*''[[Xantho pilipes]]'' <small>A. Milne-Edwards, 1867</small>
*''[[Xantho poressa]]'' <small>(Olivi, 1792)</small>
*''[[Xantho sexdentatus]]'' <small>(Miers, 1881)</small>
Five species are known from the [[fossil record]], including one species that is still extant.<ref name="Grave">{{cite journal |journal = [[Raffles Bulletin of Zoology]] |year=2009 |volume = Suppl. 21 |pages=1–109 |title = A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans |author1=Sammy De Grave |author2=N. Dean Pentcheff |author3=Shane T. Ahyong |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |format=[[Portable Document Format|PDF]]|display-authors=etal}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Xanthidae]]
[[Category:Miocene crustaceans]]
[[Category:Pliocene crustaceans]]
[[Category:Pleistocene crustaceans]]
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