Demania Explained

Demania is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:^[1]

• Demania alcocki Deb, 1987
• Demania armadillus (Herbst, 1790)
• Demania baccalipes (Alcock, 1898)
• 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 reynaudi (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

Many species are known to be toxic to humans and domestic animals and this genus of crabs should not be consumed.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. . 2008 . 17 . 1–286 . Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world . Peter K. L. Ng . Danièle Guinot . Peter J. F. Davie . amp . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061453/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf . 2011-06-06 .
2. John S. Garth . Peter K. L. Ng . amp . 1985 . Notes on the genus Demania Laurie, 1906 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Xanthidae) . . 2 . 293–308 . PDF.
3. Alcala AC, Alcala LC, Garth JS, Yasumura D, Yasumoto T . Human fatality due to ingestion of the crab Demania reynaudii that contained a palytoxin-like toxin . Toxicon . 26 . 1 . 105–7 . 1988 . 2894726 . 10.1016/0041-0101(88)90142-0 .