Subfamily Parthenopinae Macleay, 1838

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• Parthenopidae Macleay, 1838.
• Parthenopina MacLeay, W.S. 1838. On the Brachyurous Decapod Crustacea brought from the Cape by Dr Smith. pp. 53–71 pl. 3 in, Illustrations of the Annulosa of South Africa; being a portion of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, under the direction of Dr Andrew Smith, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by "The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa". London. 75 pp. 4 pls [55, 58] [corrected to Parthenopidae by Bell, T. 1844. A History of the British Stalk-Eyed Crustacea. London : [s.n.] lxv + 386 pp. [published in parts from 1844–1852, Part 1: pp. 1–48, published 1 October 1844] (45), Name No. 362 on Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1964. Opinion 696. Parthenope Weber, 1795, and Daldorfia Rathbun, 1904 (Crustacea, Decapoda): placed on the Official List of generic names. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21: 94–96].

  Secondary source:

   Bell, T. 1844. A History of the British Stalk-Eyed Crustacea. London : [s.n.] lxv + 386 pp. [published in parts from 1844–1852, Part 1: pp. 1–48, published 1 October 1844]; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1964. Opinion 696. Parthenope Weber, 1795, and Daldorfia Rathbun, 1904 (Crustacea, Decapoda): placed on the Official List of generic names. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21: 94-96.
• Lambrinae Neumann, R. 1878. Systematische Uebersicht der Gattungen der Oxyrhynchen: Catalog der podophthalmen Crustaceen des Heidelberger Museums. Beschreibung einiger neuer Arten. Leipzig. 39 pp. [17].
• Cryptopodiinae Stimpson, W. 1871. Preliminary report on the Crustacea dredged in the Gulf Stream in the Straits of Florida, by L.F. de Pourtales, Assist. U.S. Coast Survey. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 2: 109-160 [137].
• Mimilambridae Williams, A.B. 1979. A new crab family from the shallow waters of the West Indies (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 92: 399-413 [399].

  Type genus:

   Mimilambrus Williams, 1979.

Diagnosis

Carapace triangular to subcircular; surface of carapace granulate or eroded to varying degrees; lateral edges of carapace never clypeiform, ambulatory legs visible from dorsal view; branchial regions usually swollen and distinctly separated from convex gastric and cardiac regions; rostrum simple or more or less trilobed; eyes small, retract into small, circular orbits. Basal antennal article small, never reaching more than half length of basal antennular segment, never filling orbital hiatus. Buccal cavity subrectangular, not spout-like. Merus of third maxilliped quadrate to subquadrate; exopod positioned adjacent to endopod, clearly visible from frontal view. Chelipeds robust, very elongate to short, longer than walking legs; walking legs slender. Sutures between thoracic sternites 4-8 interrupted medially to varying degrees; or with sutures 4/5 and 5/6 interrupted, 6/7 and 7/8 complete. Lateral margins of male abdominal segments 3–6 usually converging towards telson, with segments appearing triangular. Male first gonopod more or less stout, tapering or not; second gonopod usually short but sometimes equal to, or even slightly longer than, first; distal segment variable in length.

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