Corystidae

{{Short description|Family of crabs}}

{{Automatic Taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Miocene|Recent}}

| image = Corystes cassivelaunus 1.jpg

| image_caption = Corystes cassivelaunus

| parent_authority = Samouelle, 1819

| taxon = Corystidae

| authority = Samouelle, 1819

| display_parents = 3

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = See text

}}

Corystidae is a family of crabs, in its own superfamily, Corystoidea. It includes what was once thought to be the oldest Eubrachyuran fossil, Hebertides jurassica, thought to be dating from the Bathonian (Middle Jurassic);{{cite journal |title=Hebertides jurassica n. gen., n. sp. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of Normandy (France) |author1=Danièle Guinot |author2=Antonio de Angeli |author3=Alessandro Garassino |journal=Atti della Società italiana di scienze naturali e del museo civico di storia naturale di Milano |year=2007 |volume=148 |issue=2 |pages=241–260}} the species was subsequently reinterpreted as being Cenozoic in age.{{cite journal |title=The Cenozoic age of the supposed Jurassic crab Hebertides jurassica Guinot, De Angeli & Gerassino, 2007 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) |author1=Paul D. Taylor |author2=G. Breton |author3=Danièle Guinot |author4=Antonio de Angeli |author5=Alessandro Garassino |journal=Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano |year=2012 |volume=153 |issue=1 |pages=71–83 |doi=10.4081/nhs.2012.71 |doi-access=free }} Corystidae contains ten extant and five extinct species in eight genera:{{cite journal|journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2009 |volume=Suppl. 21 |pages=1–109 |title=A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans |author1=Sammy De Grave |author2=N. Dean Pentcheff |author3=Shane T. Ahyong |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |display-authors=etal |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |archivedate=2011-06-06 }}

• Corystes Bosc, 1802
• Corystites Lőrenthey, in Lőrenthey & Beurlen, 1929
• Gomeza Gray, 1831
• Gomezinus † Collins, Lee & Noad, 2003
• Harenacorystes † Van Bakel, Jagt, Artal & Fraaije, 2009
• Hebertides † Guinot, De Angeli & Garassino, 2007
• Jonas Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846
• Micromithrax † Noetling, 1881