Family XANTHIDAE MacLeay, 1838 The Xanthidae is a broad family, which according to Davie et al. (2015c), includes 129 genera and 629 species. Thirty of these genera are present in waters of Southern Africa (Serène 1984; Ng et al. 2008; Poupin 2010). The majority of xanthid species inhabit intertidal areas (Guinot & Macpherson 1988) and only two species have been cited by Emmerson (2016c) in waters deeper than 100m, Actaea savignii (H. Milne Edwards) and Gaillardiellus rueppelli (Krauss).

Published as part of Muñoz, Isabel, García-Isarch, Eva & Cuesta, Jose A., 2021, Annotated and updated checklist of marine crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) of Mozambique supported by morphological and molecular data from shelf and slope species of the " MOZAMBIQUE " surveys, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 5056 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5056.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5577887