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Acanthopagurus de Saint Laurent 1968

Description

Acanthopagurus de Saint Laurent, 1968

Diagnosis. Gills biserial, 11 pairs. Rostrum obtusely and roundly triangular. Ocular acicles simple. Crista dentata with 1 accessory tooth. Right cheliped much stronger than left. Sternite of somite XII (thoracomere 6, pereopods 3) with subsemicircular anterior lobe. Pereopod 4 semichelate; propodal rasp with 1 row of corneous scales; no preungual process. Male with short, massive sexual tube on right coxa of pereopod 5, directed obliquely toward midline; left coxa without sexual tube, or possibly with small papilla protruding from gonopore; pleopods 3–5. Female with pleopods 2–5. Telson with terminal margins oblique. Type species: Anapagurus?dubius A. Milne-Edwards and Bouvier, 1900.

Notes

Published as part of McLaughlin, P. A., 2003, Illustrated keys to families and genera of the superfamily Paguroidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), with diagnoses of genera of Paguridae, pp. 111-144 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 60 (1) on page 119, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2003.60.16, http://zenodo.org/record/12210056

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Biodiversity

Family
Paguridae
Genus
Acanthopagurus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
de Saint Laurent
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Acanthopagurus Saint, 1968 sec. McLaughlin, 2003