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| Lybia Temporal range: Early Middle Miocene-Present,[1]
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| Hawaiian pompom crab, Lybia edmondsoni | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Xanthidae |
| Subfamily: | Polydectinae |
| Genus: | Lybia H. Milne-Edwards, 1834 [2] |
| Type species | |
| Grapse tessellata | |
Lybia is a genus of small crabs in the family Xanthidae. Their common names include boxer crabs, boxing crabs and pom-pom crabs. They are notable for their mutualism with sea anemones,[4] which they hold in their claws for defense. In return, the anemones get carried around, which may enable them to capture more food particles with their tentacles. Boxer crabs use at least three species of anemones, including Bundeopsis spp. and Triactis producta.
- ^ Karasawa, H. (1993). "Cenozoic decapod Crustacea from southwest Japan". Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum. 20: 1–92.
- ^ "Lybia H. Milne Edwards, 1834". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved March 1, 2011.
- ^ Ng, Peter K. L.; Guinot, Danièle; Davie, Peter J. F. (January 2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An Annotated Checklist of Extant Brachyuran Crabs of the World". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
- ^ Gries, Lennart; Paule, Juraj; Sonnewald, Moritz; Nilsson, Maria A (2024-02-01). "Eocene origin of anemone-carrying behaviour in polydectine crabs (Brachyura: Xanthidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 200 (2): 352–359. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad075. ISSN 0024-4082.