| Zosimus | |
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| Zosimus aeneus - An Atauro crab | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Xanthidae |
| Subfamily: | Zosiminae |
| Genus: | Zosimus Leach, 1818 |
| Type species | |
| Cancer aeneus | |
Zosimus is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:[1]
- Zosimus actaeoides (A. Milne Edwards, 1867)
- Zosimus aeneus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Zosimus fissa (Henderson, 1893)
- Zosimus hawaiiensis (Rathbun, 1906)
- Zosimus laevis Dana, 1852
- Zosimus maculatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Zosimus sculptus (De Man, 1888)
Three species are known from the fossil record, including two which are extinct.[2]
- ^ 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 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2011-06-08 – via the National University of Singapore.
- ^ Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.