Tags: Crustacean.
Marratha angusta is a species of crabs in the family Xanthidae the only species in the genus Marratha. It was originally described as Cycloxanthops angustus by Mary J. Rathbun in 1906 but was moved to a new genus in 2003; the name of the genus Marratha is an arbitrary abbreviation of Rathbun’s name. It has been recorded from the Amirante Islands (Seychelles) Hawaii and the South China Sea.