Subfamily Rhizopinae Stimpson, 1858

Camptoplax coppingeri [from Miers 1884: pl. 24 fig. A]

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• Rhizopidae 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] [95].

  Type genus:

   Rhizopa Stimpson, 1858.
• Typhlocarcinopinae Rathbun, M.J. 1909. New crabs from the Gulf of Siam. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 22: 107-114 [112] [emendation; this group name was emended to "Typhlocarcinopinae Rathbun, 1909" in Manning & Holthuis (1981: 165). The name Typhlocarcinopsinae was wrongly attributed to Stimpson, 1858, under the synonymy of Pilumnidae by Ng et al. (2008: 138)].

  Type genus:

   Typhlocarcinops Rathbun, 1909.

  Secondary source:

   Manning, R.B. & Holthuis, L.B. 1981. West African Brachyuran Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 306: i-xii, 1-379 figs 1-88, 2 appendices; Ng, P.K.L, Guinot, D. & Davie, P.J.F. 2008. Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1-286 [Date published 31 January 2008].
• Typhlocarcinopsinae Rathbun, 1909 [original spelling].
• Itampolinae Števčić, 2005.
• Peleianinae Števčić, 2005.

Diagnosis

Carapace broader than long, subquadrate, nearly smooth; antero- and posterolateral borders often not distinctly separated; anterolateral margins convex, often entire or more or less distinctly dentate; front either broad and square-cut, or narrow, more or less distinctly bilobed and deflexed. Orbits shallow; lower border with tendency to slope toward epistome. Eyes often small; eyestalks often fixed in orbits; cornea reduced or obsolete. Antennules folding transversely or obliquely in fossae, rarely excluded from fossae. Antennal flagellum usually short. Third maxilliped sometimes with antero-external angle of merus produced. Epistome well defined and prominent. Male abdomen with seven free segments; third segment usually not covering entire width of sternum between last pair of legs. Male genital openings coxo-sternal (genital openings coxal but penis in narrow canal on sternum). Male first gonopod slender, sinuous, apex simple and typically recurved; second gonopod short, sigmoid.

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