Sesarmidae is a family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of crab

Crab

True crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" , or where the reduced abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax...

s, previously included in the Grapsidae

Grapsidae

Grapsidae is a family of crabs known variously as marsh crabs, shore crabs or talon crabs. It is not confirmed that the family forms a monophyletic group and some taxa may belong in other families...

 by many authors. Several species, namely in Geosesarma

Geosesarma

Geosesarma is genus of terrestrial crabs. They live and reproduce on land with the larval stages inside the egg. Some species such as Geosesarma nemesis are insectivorous and are beneficial to humans. Some species are kept as pets. They were once considered part of the Grapsidae family but were...

, Metopaulias

Metopaulias

Metopaulias is a monotypic genus of fully terrestrial land crabs which do not require to go back to the sea to spawn. Metopaulias depressus is a reddish-brown crab about wide which lives in the pools of water which form in the leaves of bromeliads in Jamaica...

and Sesarma

Sesarma

Sesarma is a genus of terrestrial crabs. Many species within this genus live in mangroves. They have evolved to be fully terrestrial, which means they do not have to return to the sea even to spawn...

, are true terrestrial crabs. They do not need to return to the sea even for breeding.

Genera

The family contains the following genera:

• Aratus
  Aratus pisonii
  Aratus pisonii, commonly known as the mangrove tree crab, is a species of crab which lives in mangrove trees in tropical and subtropical parts of the Americas, from Florida to Brazil on the Atlantic coast, and from Nicaragua to Peru on the Pacific coast. It feeds mostly on the leaves of the...
  
  
• Armases
• Bresedium
• Chiromantes
• Clistocoeloma
• Episesarma
• Geosesarma
  Geosesarma
  Geosesarma is genus of terrestrial crabs. They live and reproduce on land with the larval stages inside the egg. Some species such as Geosesarma nemesis are insectivorous and are beneficial to humans. Some species are kept as pets. They were once considered part of the Grapsidae family but were...
  
  
• Haberma
• Karstarma
  Karstarma
  Karstarma is a genus of karst-dwelling crabs formerly included in Sesarmoides.-Description:Karstarma is distinguished from the closely related Sesarmoides by the lack of a stridulatory structure on the cheliped which is present in the latter genus.-Ecology & biogeography:All species in the genus...
  
  
• Labuanium
• Metagrapsus
• Metasesarma
• Metopaulias
  Metopaulias
  Metopaulias is a monotypic genus of fully terrestrial land crabs which do not require to go back to the sea to spawn. Metopaulias depressus is a reddish-brown crab about wide which lives in the pools of water which form in the leaves of bromeliads in Jamaica...
  
  
• Muradium
• Namlacium
• Nanosesarma
• Neosarmatium
• Neosesarma
• Parasesarma
• Perisesarma
  Perisesarma
  Perisesarma is a genus of mangrove crabs in the family Sesarmidae predominantly found in the Indo-Pacific. There are 23 species as of late 2006 with two from west Africa: P. kammermani & P. alberti Rathbun, 1921. They are typically small semi-terrestrial crabs found on the forest floor at low tide...
  
  
• Pseudosesarma
• Sarmatium
• Scandarma
• Selatium
• Sesarma
  Sesarma
  Sesarma is a genus of terrestrial crabs. Many species within this genus live in mangroves. They have evolved to be fully terrestrial, which means they do not have to return to the sea even to spawn...
  
  
• Sesarmoides
• Sesarmops
• Stelgistra
• Tiomanum

The genera

Genera

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 Chiromantes, Parasesarma, Pseudosesarma and Sesarmops are apparently not monophyletic. Scandarma may be a junior synonym of some other genus.

Selected species

• Chiromantes dehaani
  Chiromantes dehaani
  Chiromantes dehaani is a mudflat crab of the Sesarmidae family , which is endemic to East Asia. It typically lives in mangrove swamps and is known under the common name kurobenkeigani in Japan. C. dehaani has an uneven carapace, which is divided into four frontal lobes...
  
  — kurobenkeigani (Japanese)
• Chiromantes haematocheir
  Chiromantes haematocheir
  Chiromantes haematocheir is a mudflat crab of the family Sesarmidae , which is endemic to East Asia. It is known under the common names red-clawed crab or akategani and the Latin names Grapsus heamotocheir and Sesarma heamotocheir...
  
  — red-clawed crab; akategani (Japanese)
• Parasesarma erythrodactyla
  Parasesarma erythrodactyla
  Parasesarma erythrodactyla, also known as the red-handed shore crab, is a burrowing crab inhabiting mangrove forests in Australia and Southeast Asia. It is immediately identifiable by its bright red chelipeds and green/brown carapace....
  
  — red-handed shore crab
• Parasesarma pictum
  Parasesarma pictum
  Parasesarma pictum is a mudflat crab, belonging to the Sesarmidae family , which is endemic to East Asia. This crab typically inhabits mangrove swamps, preferring the upper intertidal region of estuaries, and living in small crevices and abandoned holes made by other species. It eats leaf litter...
  
  — kakubenkeigani (Japanese)