Demania

Genus of crabs

Demania

Demania cultripes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Malacostraca
Order:  | Decapoda
Suborder:  | Pleocyemata
Infraorder:  | Brachyura
Family:  | Xanthidae
Subfamily:  | Xanthinae
Genus:  | Demania
Laurie, 1906

Demania is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:[1][2]

* †Demania ahramensis Yazdi, Bahrami, Abbasi, Sadeghi & Vega, 2013
* Demania alcocki Deb, 1987
* Demania armadillus (Herbst, 1790)
* Demania baccalipes (Alcock, 1898)
* †Demania chayiensis (Hu, 1981)
* Demania crosnieri Serene, 1984
* Demania cultripes (Alcock, 1898)
* Demania garthi Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1981
* Demania intermedia Guinot, 1969
* Demania japonica Guinot, 1977
* Demania mortenseni (Odhner, 1925)
* †Demania pilipinas Karasawa & Kato in Karasawa, Kato, Maac-Aguilar, Kurihara, Hayashi & Hagino, 2008
* Demania reynaudii (H. Milne Edwards, 1834)
* Demania rotundata Serene, 1969
* Demania scaberrima (Walker, 1887)
* Demania serenei Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1981
* Demania splendida Laurie, 1906
* Demania toxica Garth, 1971
* Demania unispinosa Chen & Ng, 1999
* Demania wardi Garth & Ng, 1985

Many species are known to be toxic to humans and domestic animals.[3][4]

## References

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1. ^ Ng, Peter K. L.; Guinot, Danièle; Davie, Peter J. F. (January 2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286\. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2011 – via the National University of Singapore.
2. ^ De Grave, Sammy (2020). "Demania Laurie, 1906". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 11 October 2024.
3. ^ John S. Garth & Peter K. L. Ng (1985). "Notes on the genus Demania Laurie, 1906 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Xanthidae)" (PDF). Indo-Malayan Zoology. 2: 293–308.
4. ^ Alcala AC, Alcala LC, Garth JS, Yasumura D, Yasumoto T (1988). "Human fatality due to ingestion of the crab Demania reynaudii that contained a palytoxin-like toxin". Toxicon. 26 (1): 105–7\. doi:10.1016/0041-0101(88)90142-0. PMID 2894726.

Taxon identifiers

Demania|

* Wikidata: Q5255060
* AFD: Demania
* BOLD: 322412
* CoL: 7P8B8
* GBIF: 3254380
* iNaturalist: 548202
* NCBI: 411671
* Open Tree of Life: 613901
* Paleobiology Database: 225573
* WoRMS: 204846

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