Subfamily Etisinae Ortmann, 1893

Etisus laevimanus [P. Davie 2002: 529]

Museums

Regional Maps

• Etisinae Ortmann, A.E. 1893. Abtheilung: Brachyura (Brachyura genuina Boas) II. Unterabtheilung: Cancroidea, 2. Section: Cancrinea, 1. Gruppe: Clyclometopa. Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der von Herrn Dr Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und zur Zeit im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen, VII. Theil. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 7: 411-495 pl. 17 [429, 470].

Diagnosis

Carapace with dorsal surface finely granular or smooth; regions more or less delineated and projecting, but always indicated. Four to eight acute or subacute anterolateral teeth behind exorbital angles. Front more or less projecting; bilobed or quadrilobed, with noticeable median fissure, and lateral sinus separating supra-orbital angles; breadth less than one-third maximum width of carapace. Antennules fold transversely. Basal antennal article with outer anterolateral lobule (sometimes weak) occupying orbital hiatus; antennal flagellum excluded from orbit. Chelipeds with extremities of fingers rounded and spoon-shaped. Walking legs typically with dactylo-propodal articulation formed by rounded prolongation of propodal lateral margin sliding against and beneath projecting button situated proximally on lateral margin of dactylus (if not clearly differentiated then dactylus apically bifid).

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