Family DOTILLIDAE Stimpson, 1858

Ilyoplax-dentata [from Ward 1973: pl. 2 fig. 5]

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• Dotinae Dana, J.D. 1851. On the classification of the Crustacea Grapsoidea. American Journal of Science and Arts 12: 283-290 [286] [unavailable as based on a homonym].
• Dotillidae Stimpson, W. 1858. Crustacea Ocypodoidea: Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit W. Stimpson. Pars V. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 10: 93-110 [page numbers 39–56 on separate reprint] [98].

  Type genus:

   Dotilla Stimpson, 1858.
• Scopimeridae Alcock, A. 1900. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 6. The Brachyura Catametopa, or Grapsoidea. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 69(Pt 2 No. 3): 279-456 [290, 295, 363].

  Type genus:

   Scopimera De Haan, 1833.
• Lazarocleistostomidae Stevcic, Z. 2011. Addition to the reclassification of brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Part I. New taxa. Natura Croatica 20(1): 125–139.

Diagnosis

Carapace subglobose or quadrilateral; anterolateral margins with tooth or indentation behind exorbital angle. Front variable, from narrow to moderately broad. Interantennular septum broad; antennules folding lengthwise, subparallel or oblique. Eyestalks usually elongate. Buccal cavern sometimes greatly enlarged; third maxillipeds broad, completely closing buccal cavern. Chelipeds symmetrical or slightly asymmetrical in both sexes. Brush of long setae edging pouch leading into branchial cavity between bases of second and third pereiopods may be present, or completely lacking; abdomen with transverse brush of setae in some genera. Meri of some or all pereiopods often bearing a tympanum. Thoracic sternum broad posteriorly. Male genital openings sternal.

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