- Kingdom Animalia
- Phylum Arthropoda
- Subphylum Crustacea
- Superclass Multicrustacea
- Class Malacostraca
- Subclass Eumalacostraca
- Superorder Eucarida
- Order Decapoda
- Suborder Pleocyemata
- Infraorder Brachyura
- Section Eubrachyura
- Subsection Heterotremata
- Superfamily Xanthoidea
Child taxons:
| Subfamily Cymoinae → Genus Cymo |  |
| Subfamily Etisinae → Genus Etisus |   |
| Subfamily Euxanthinae → Genus Euxanthus |  |
| Family Polydectinae → Genus Lybia |   |
| Subfamily Xanthinae |   |
| Subfamily Zosiminae → Genus Platypodia |  |