Xanthoidea

{{Short description|Superfamily of crabs}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Xantho_poressa_2009_G2.jpg

| image_caption = Xantho poressa

| taxon = Xanthoidea

| authority = MacLeay, 1838 {{cite WoRMS |author=Davie, P. |year=2015 |title=Xanthoidea MacLeay, 1838 |id=106703 |access-date=2015-07-04}}

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision = See text

}}

Xanthoidea is a superfamily of crabs, comprising seven families.{{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}}{{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}} Formerly, a number of other families were included in Xanthoidea, but many of these have since been removed to other superfamilies. These include Carpilioidea, Eriphioidea, Hexapodoidea, Pilumnoidea and Trapezioidea. Even in this reduced state, Xanthoidea remains one of the most species-rich superfamilies of crabs.