Subfamily Carcinoplacinae H. Milne Edwards, 1852

Neopilumnoplax heterochir [from Miers 1886: pl. 19 fig. 1]

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Regional Maps

• Carcinoplacinae Milne Edwards, H. 1852. De la famille des ocypodides (Ocypodidae). Second Mémoire, in, Observations sur les affinités zoologiques et la classification naturelle des Crustacés. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris Zoology 18: 128-166 pls 3, 4 [164].

  Type genus:

   Carcinoplax H. Milne Edwards, 1852.

Diagnosis

Carapace xanthoid in shape, transversely oval to trapezoidal; dorsal regions not well defined; front relatively wide, truncate, slightly deflexed; eyes and orbits of normal xanthoid size and form, eyes well pigmented, movable; antennules folding transversely; antennal flagella of medium length. Epistome well defined, buccal cavern quadrate, usually completely closed by external maxillipeds; merus of third maxillipeds subquadrate. Male abdomen with base of third segment entirely covering sternum between last pair of legs. Male first gonopod slender, long; second male gonopod sometimes reaching half length of first.

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