Symethis

Symethis
Temporal range: Paleogene–Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Raninidae
Subfamily: Symethinae
Goeke, 1981
Genus: Symethis
Weber, 1795
Species
  • Symethis corallica Davie, 1989
  • Symethis garthi Goeke, 1981
  • Symethis variolosa (Fabricius, 1793)
  • Symethis johnsoni Rathbun, 1935

Symethis is a genus of crabs. It differs from other genera in the family Raninidae by the lack of ornamentation of the male first pleopods and by the reduced number of gills (7 pairs rather than 8 pairs), and is therefore placed in a separate subfamily, Symethinae.[1]

There are three extant species:[2]

One further species,[4] Symethis johnsoni is known from fossils of Paleogene age,[5] but may belong in the subfamily Lyreidinae rather than in Symethis.[5]

References

External identifiers for Symethis
Encyclopedia of Life 40782
ITIS 98414
NCBI 405152
WoRMS 416034
  1. 1 2 3 Gary D. Goeke (1981). "Symethinae, new subfamily, and Symethis garthi new species, and the transfer of Raninoides ecuadorensis to Notosceles (Raninidae: Brachyura: Gymnopleura)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 93 (4): 971–981.
  2. Peter Davie, (2010). "Symethis Weber, 1795". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  3. P. J. F. Davie (1989). "Smethis corallica sp. nov. (Crustacea, Brachyura, Raninidae), the first member of the Smethinae to be recorded" (PDF). Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. 4th 11 (A2): 425–430.
  4. 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.
  5. 1 2 David A. Waugh, Rodney M. Feldmann & Carrie E. Schweitzer (2009). "Systematic evaluation of raninid cuticle microstructure" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 35: 15–41.


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