The spermatheca in podotreme crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata) and its phylogenetic implications Author Guinot, Danièle Author Quenette, Gwenaël Histoire naturelle, Département Milieux et Peuplements aquatiques, case postale 53, 61 rue Buffon, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) guinot @ mnhn. fr guinot@mnhn.fr text Zoosystema 2005 27 2 267 342 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.5397969 1638-9387 5397969 Takedromia cristatipes (Sakai, 1969) Ovigerous female 19.8 × 21.6 mm, New Caledonia , BATHUS 4, stn DW 931 (MNHN- B 26420). The axial skeleton is flattened and widened ( Fig. 11A ). Thoracic sternum is very broad and the sterno-abdominal depression rather wide. Female sternal sutures 7/8 are relatively short, reaching only level of the episternites 5, only lateral, not converging, and end wide apart, each on a weak prominence. The spermathecal apertures are terminal and very small ( Guinot & Tavares 2003 : fig. 19A). The bulb of the spermatheca is pear-shaped. The chamber is weakly developed, with adjacent sheets; the inner wall is soft, ornamented. The tube is markedly narrow, with terminal opening.