Hermit crabs from Brazil: Family Diogenidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguroidea), except Paguristes
Author
Nucci, Paulo Ricardo
Author
Melo, Gustavo Augusto Schmidt De
text
Zootaxa
2015
3947
3
327
346
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3947.3.2
6173bd73-5471-4c1e-a758-5481ffbd97b5
1175-5326
240452
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Genus
Cancellus
H.
Milne Edwards, 1836
Type
species.
Cancellus
typus
H.
Milne Edwards, 1836
.
Diagnosis
. Fourteen pairs of gills with entire lamellae (not divided). Antennal flagella short, with very short setae. Endopodite of maxilla without lateral lobe. Ischium of third maxilliped with
crista dentata
well developed. Chelipeds equal, forming an operculum with the three distal articles of first and second ambulatory legs. Females with four, large, biramous unpaired pleopods (pl2 to pl5); males lacking pleopods entirely. Abdomen, uropods and telson symmetrical.