Subfamily Zosiminae Alcock, 1898

Zosimus aeneus [from Garth & Alcala 1977: fig. 1]

Atergatis floridus [from Garth & Alcala 1977: fig. 3]

Museums

Regional Maps

• Zozymoida 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, 94].

Diagnosis

Carapace xanthoid in shape, not particularly broadened; dorsal surface convex, regions strongly marked. Anterolateral margins convex, rounded, or more or less strongly crested; typically with four lobes or broad teeth behind exorbital angle, but may be entire or lobes marked merely by slight indentations or narrow fissures; distinctly separated from concave posterolateral margins. Front weakly bilobed, with or without marginal crest; with ventral prolongation meeting short basal antennal article. Antennules fold transversely. Chelipeds subequal, similar; with a more or less developed carina on superior margin of palm. Walking legs with anterior margins crested, particularly on carpus and propodus.

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