Melybia

{{Short description|Genus of crabs}}

{{Speciesbox

| genus = Melybia

| parent_authority = Stimpson, 1871

| species = thalamita

| authority = Stimpson, 1871

| synonyms = Melybia forceps {{small|A. Milne-Edwards, 1880}}

| synonyms_ref = {{cite WoRMS |last=Davie |first=Peter |year=2010 |title=Melybia thalamita Stimpson, 1871 |id=422133}}

}}

Melybia thalamita is a species of crab in the family Xanthidae, the only species in the genus Melybia.{{cite journal |last1=Ng |first1=Peter K. L. |last2=Guinot |first2=Danièle |last3=Davie |first3=Peter J. F. |date=January 2008 |title=Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world |url=https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/app/uploads/2017/04/s17rbz.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |volume=17 |pages=1–286 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061453/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf |archive-date=2011-06-06 |access-date=2011-06-08 |via=the National University of Singapore}} It is found in the western Atlantic Ocean, from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico south to São Paulo, Brazil, at depths of {{convert|10|-|200|m}}.{{cite web |url=http://species-identification.org/species.php?species_group=zsao&id=3816&menuentry=soorten |title=Brachyura larvae: Melybia thalamita |author1=Gerhard Pohle |author2=Fernando L. M. Mantelatto |author3=Maria L. Negreiros-Fransozo |author4=Adilson Fransozo |work=Zooplankton of the South Atlantic Ocean |accessdate=August 1, 2011}}