{{Short description|Family of crabs}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Sally lightfoot crab.jpg | image_caption = ''Grapsus grapsus'' | taxon = Grapsidae | authority = Macleay, 1838 <ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS |taxon=Grapsidae |id=99033 |accessdate=November 1, 2010}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text }}
The '''Grapsidae''' are a family of crabs known variously as '''marsh crabs''', '''shore crabs''', or '''talon crabs'''.<ref name="ITIS"/> The family has not been confirmed to form a monophyletic group and some taxa may belong in other families.<ref name="Schubart">{{cite journal |author1=C. D. Schubart |author2=S. Cannicci |author3=M. Vannini |author4=S. Fratini |year=2006 |title=Molecular phylogeny of grapsoid crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura) and allies based on two mitochondrial genes and a proposal for refraining from current superfamily classification |journal=Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=193–199 |doi=10.1111/j.1439-0469.2006.00354.x |url=http://www-evolution.uni-regensburg.de/Staff/ChristophSchubart/pdf/JZSER-2006online.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719110915/http://www-evolution.uni-regensburg.de/Staff/ChristophSchubart/pdf/JZSER-2006online.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-19 }}</ref> They are found along the shore among rocks, in estuaries, marshes, and in some cases pelagic among drifting seaweeds and flotsam.
==Genera== A number of taxa, formerly treated as subfamilies of the family Grapsidae are now considered families in their own right, including the Varunidae and Plagusiidae.<ref name="Grave">{{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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |archive-date=2011-06-06 }}</ref> Forty species and ten genera remain in the family, two of the genera known only from fossils:<ref name="Grave"/> *''Geograpsus'' <small>Stimpson, 1858</small> *''Goniopsis'' <small>De Haan, 1833</small> *''Grapsus'' <small>Lamarck, 1801</small> *''Leptograpsodes'' <small>Montgomery, 1931</small> *''Leptograpsus'' <small>H. Milne Edwards, 1853</small> *''Litograpsus'' † <small>Schweitzer & Karasawa, 2004</small> *''Metopograpsus'' <small>H. Milne Edwards, 1853</small> *''Miograpsus'' † <small>Fleming, 1981</small> *''Pachygrapsus'' <small>Randall, 1840</small> *''Planes'' <small>Bowdich, 1825</small>
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
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Category:Grapsidae Category:Decapod families