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BROAD-FRONTED CRAB Xanthias latifrons
family Xanthidae
John Earle captured this crab on video at the Lanai Lookout, Oahu. Dr. Peter Ng identified it as a species of the genus Xanthias. Dr. Joseph Poupin further identified it as Xanthias latifrons. There is already a photo of X. latifrons in my book Hawaii's Sea Creatures, but apparently that photo is of a small specimen with a slightly different color pattern.

Gaillardiellus superciliaris Odhner, 1925
family Xanthidae
Kewalo Park, O`ahu. 2 ft.

Epiactaea nodulosa (White, 1847)
family Xanthidae
Photo by Tina Owens, Kona, Hawai`i

Tweedieia laysani (Rathbun, 1906)
family Xanthidae
Photos: (top) Tina Owens, Kona, Hawai`i.
(bottom) Kelli Shaw. Crab found at base of Pocillopora exydouxi, "Horsehoe Reef" (next to the Kewalo Pipe), O`ahu. 45 ft. at night.

unidentified xanthid
Photo by Tina Owens, Kona, Hawai`i
According to Dr. Peter Ng this could be a species of Etisus, if from a coral reef. Or if from a rocky shore it might be Leptodius.

Paramedaeus sp
family Xanthidae.
(possibly P. octogesimus Ng and Clark, 2002)
Photo by Tina Owens, Kona, Hawai`