Gabriel Paladino Ibáñez, Uruguay
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Euxanthus huonii (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846)
Euxanthus is a genus in the family Xanthidae, which currently only includes species.
Euxanthus huonii is a common species throughout the Indo-West Pacific region, from the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf to Tahiti, although it has not been recorded in Japan or the southwestern Indian Ocean (Guinot-Dumortier, 1960). The living specimens are dusky in color with a mottled mix of light and dark brown, as well as gray in some specimens, which likely helps the crab camouflage itself in the intertidal and shallow intertidal areas where it lives.
Many species of the family Xanthidae can be poisonous, although they themselves have no poisonous apparatus (poisonous teeth, poisonous spines, poisonous glands in the skin), the consumption of these crustaceans can even be fatal for humans. Such animals are considered passive-poisonous.
The toxins of crabs (saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin) are produced by endobacteria and stored in the flesh of the crab, these e are highly potent and similar to the neurotoxins of puffer fish and just as deadly.
In its raw and cooked meat, consumption of the crab meat is toxic to humans!
Please be sure to clarify whether the meat of these crabs is toxic or non-toxic before eating it!
Call an emergency doctor immediately at the first signs of poisoning (e.g. breathing problems, muscle cramps)!
The good news is there’s no way you can be exposed to these toxins if you don’t try to eat these crabs – a bite or a jab isn’t going to do the job.
The bad news for those who unwittingly consume these crabs is that cooking the meat isn’t going to make the toxins any less effective.
Fortunately, toxic crabs don’t want to be eaten just as much as we shouldn’t be eating them, so they help us out with their glorious warning colours.
Synonymised names:
Cancer huonii Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Euxanthus sculptilis Dana, 1852 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Xantho (Euxanthus) sculptilis Dana, 1852 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Euxanthus is a genus in the family Xanthidae, which currently only includes species.
Euxanthus huonii is a common species throughout the Indo-West Pacific region, from the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf to Tahiti, although it has not been recorded in Japan or the southwestern Indian Ocean (Guinot-Dumortier, 1960). The living specimens are dusky in color with a mottled mix of light and dark brown, as well as gray in some specimens, which likely helps the crab camouflage itself in the intertidal and shallow intertidal areas where it lives.
Many species of the family Xanthidae can be poisonous, although they themselves have no poisonous apparatus (poisonous teeth, poisonous spines, poisonous glands in the skin), the consumption of these crustaceans can even be fatal for humans. Such animals are considered passive-poisonous.
The toxins of crabs (saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin) are produced by endobacteria and stored in the flesh of the crab, these e are highly potent and similar to the neurotoxins of puffer fish and just as deadly.
In its raw and cooked meat, consumption of the crab meat is toxic to humans!
Please be sure to clarify whether the meat of these crabs is toxic or non-toxic before eating it!
Call an emergency doctor immediately at the first signs of poisoning (e.g. breathing problems, muscle cramps)!
The good news is there’s no way you can be exposed to these toxins if you don’t try to eat these crabs – a bite or a jab isn’t going to do the job.
The bad news for those who unwittingly consume these crabs is that cooking the meat isn’t going to make the toxins any less effective.
Fortunately, toxic crabs don’t want to be eaten just as much as we shouldn’t be eating them, so they help us out with their glorious warning colours.
Synonymised names:
Cancer huonii Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Euxanthus sculptilis Dana, 1852 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Xantho (Euxanthus) sculptilis Dana, 1852 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
