Demania

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

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

Many species are known to be toxic to humans and domestic animals and this genus of crabs should not be consumed.^[3][4]

References

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.