Demania

Genus of crabs

Demania

Demania cultripes
Scientific classification
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Animalia

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Arthropoda

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Crustacea

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Malacostraca

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Decapoda

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Brachyura

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Xanthidae

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Demania

Laurie, 1906

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

* Demania alcocki Deb, 1987
* Demania armadillus (Herbst, 1790)
* Demania baccalipes (Alcock, 1898)
* 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 reynaudi (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 and this genus of crabs should not be consumed.[2][3]

## References[edit]

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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
2. ^ 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.
3. ^ 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|

* Wikidata: Q5255060
* AFD: Demania
* BOLD: 322412
* CoL: 7P8B8
* Fossilworks: 225573
* GBIF: 3254380
* iNaturalist: 548202
* NCBI: 411671
* WoRMS: 204846

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