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Zosimus aeneus, also known as the devil crab, toxic reef crab, and devil reef crab is a species of crab that lives on coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific from East Africa to Hawaii. It grows to a size of 60 mm × 90 mm (2.4 in × 3.5 in) and has distinctive patterns of brownish blotches on a paler background.
Xanthidae is a family of crabs known as gorilla crabs, mud crabs, pebble crabs or rubble crabs. [1] Xanthid crabs are often brightly coloured and are highly poisonous, containing toxins which are not destroyed by cooking and for which no antidote is known.
While the coconut crab itself is not innately poisonous, it may become so depending on its diet, and cases of coconut crab poisoning have occurred. [57] [61] For instance, consumption of the sea mango (Cerbera manghas) by the coconut crab may make the coconut crab toxic due to the presence of cardiac cardenolides. [62]
The meat of Atergatis floridus, like that of many related crab species from the family Xanthidae is toxic.The toxins are synthesised by bacteria of the genus Vibrio which live in symbiosis with the crab and the poisons are one similar to those found in puffer fish, i.e. tetrodotoxin, and also saxitoxin which is the primary toxin involved in paralytic shellfish poisoning.
Lophozozymus pictor, the mosaic reef crab is a species of crab in the family Xanthidae. ... This is known to be one of the most poisonous crabs in the world.
Atergatis roseus, the pancake crab, is a species of reef crab from the family Xanthidae with a natural range extending from the Red Sea to Fiji. It has colonised the eastern Mediterranean by Lessepsian migration through the Suez Canal. The flesh of this crab, like many other species in the family Xanthidae, is toxic.
Capture (blue) and aquaculture (green) production of Indo-Pacific swamp crab (Scylla serrata) in thousand tonnes from 1950 to 2022, as reported by the FAO [1]Scylla serrata (often called mud crab or mangrove crab, although both terms are highly ambiguous, and black crab) is an ecologically important species of crab found in the estuaries and mangroves of Africa, Australia, and Asia.
Carpilius maculatus, common names seven-eleven crab, [1] spotted reef crab, [2] [3] [4] dark-finger coral crab, and large spotted crab, [5] is a species of crab in the family Carpiliidae, [6] which also includes C. convexus and C. corallinus.