"Derived from the Greek word, ""xanthos, which colour does the prefix xantho describe?"
Xanthos like the Greek word "xanthos", which also means yellow. The river usually has a yellow hue because of the soil in the alluvial base of the valley. Today the site of Xanthos overlooks the modern Turkish village of Kınık. Once over 500 m long, the Roman Kemer Bridge crossed the upper reaches of the river near the present-day village of Kemer. The modern Turkish name of the river is Eşen Çayı. A Greek legend is that the river was created by the birth pangs of Leto, whose temple, at the Letoon, is on the west bank of the river a
Xantho poressa Xantho poressa Xantho poressa, the jaguar round crab, is a species of crab from the eastern Atlantic Ocean It is one of four species in the genus "Xantho". The juveniles of "Xantho poressa" are cryptically coloured as camouflage among the epibionts on the leaves of "Posidonia" with a variable carapace colour which can be yellowish, reddish, brown or dark grey with patches of other colour, usually white. The pereiopods are usually banded with dark brown or black bands alternating with white or translucent stripes or spots, although the fifth pereiopod is brighter and often unmarked. The adults are uniformly dark