# Percnon

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{{Short description|Genus of crabs}}
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| image = Percnon gibbesi Linosa 053.jpg
| image_caption = ''[Percnon gibbesi](/source/Percnon_gibbesi)''
| taxon = Percnon
| authority = [Gistel](/source/Johannes_von_Nepomuk_Franz_Xaver_Gistel), 1848&nbsp;<ref name=WoRMS/><ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS |id=99073 |taxon=''Percnon'' Gistel, 1848 |access-date=27 March 2023}}</ref>
| synonyms = *''Acanthopus'' <small>De Haan, 1833</small>
*''Leiolophus'' <small>[Miers](/source/Edward_J._Miers), 1876</small>
*''Liolophus'' <small>[Alcock](/source/Alfred_William_Alcock), 1876</small>
}}

'''''Percnon''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [crab](/source/crab)s in the family [Percnidae](/source/Percnidae).<ref name=WoRMS/> It has also been included in the family [Plagusiidae](/source/Plagusiidae)<ref name="ITIS"/> as subfamily Percninae.<ref name="Ng"/>

==Species==
Seven extant species are recognised:<ref name=WoRMS/>
*''[Percnon abbreviatum](/source/Percnon_abbreviatum)'' <small>(Dana, 1851)</small>
*''[Percnon affine](/source/Percnon_affine)'' <small>([Milne-Edwards](/source/Henri_Milne-Edwards), 1853)</small>
*''[Percnon gibbesi](/source/Percnon_gibbesi)'' <small>(Milne-Edwards, 1853)</small>
*''[Percnon guinotae](/source/Percnon_guinotae)'' <small>Crosnier, 1965</small>
*''[Percnon pascuensis](/source/Percnon_pascuensis)'' <small>Retamal, 2002</small>
*''[Percnon planissimum](/source/Percnon_planissimum)'' <small>([Herbst](/source/Johann_Friedrich_Wilhelm_Herbst), 1804)</small>
*''[Percnon sinense](/source/Percnon_sinense)'' <small>Chen, 1977</small>

There are two species only known from fossils:<ref name=WoRMS/>
*†''[Percnon paleogenicus](/source/Percnon_paleogenicus)'' <small>De Angeli, 2023</small>
*†''[Percnon santurbanensis](/source/Percnon_santurbanensis)'' <small>Ceccon & De Angeli, 2019</small>

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Ng">{{cite journal |last1=Ng |first1=Peter K. L. |author-link=Peter Kee Lin Ng |last2=Guinot |first2=Danièle |author-link2=Danièle Guinot |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](/source/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=6 June 2011 |access-date=8 June 2011 |via=the National University of Singapore}}</ref>

<ref name=WoRMS>{{cite WoRMS |title=''Percnon'' Gistel, 1848 |year=2023 |id=106966 |db= |access-date=27 March 2023}}</ref>
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Category:Grapsoidea
Category:Decapod genera
Category:Taxa named by Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel

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