Illustrated keys to families and genera of the superfamily Paguroidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), with diagnoses of genera of Paguridae
Author
McLaughlin, P. A.
text
Memoirs of Museum Victoria
2003
2003-12-31
60
1
111
144
https://museumsvictoria.com.au/collections-research/journals/memoirs-of-museum-victoria/volume-60-issue-1-2003/pages-111-144/
journal article
10.24199/j.mmv.2003.60.16
1447-2554
12210056
Rhodochirus
McLaughlin, 1981
Diagnosis.
Gills biserial, 11 pairs. Rostrum obtusely triangular or as broadly rounded lobe. Ocular acicles simple. Crista dentata with 1 accessory tooth. Right chela subovate to subquadrate; at least some spines or tubercles with basal rosettes. Sternite of somite XII (thoracomere 6, pereopods 3) with subsemicircular to subquadrate anterior lobe. Pereopod 4 semichelate; propodal rasp with 1 row of corneous scales; preungual process well developed. Male with pleopods 3–5. Female with pleopod 1 paired, modified; pleopods 2–5. Telson with terminal margins oblique.
Type
species:
Pylopagurus rosaceus
A. Milne-Edwards and Bouvier, 1893
.