Subfamily Halimedinae Alcock, 1898

Halimede tyche [from Henderson 1893: pl. 36 fig. 13]

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halimedoida Alcock, A. 1898. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 3. The Brachyura Cyclometopa. Part I. The Family Xanthidae. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 67(Pt 2 No. 1): 67-233 [77, 134].

  Type genus:

   Halimede De Haan, 1833.

Diagnosis

Carapace pentagonal, moderately broad; surface smooth, generally glabrous; front prominent, narrow, square-cut, medial indent more or less evident. Antero- and posterolateral margins clearly demarcated; anterolateral margin with distinct rounded lobes, never dentate or spiniform. Endostomial crests absent. Male abdomen very slender, elongate, reaching to level of anterior edge of base of chelipeds; telson very elongate, more than twice length of any other abdominal segment. Male first gonopod almost straight, with distal part slender, not sharply bent at stout basal segment.

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