Subfamily Pylochelinae Spence Bate, 1888

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Introduction

The subfamily Pylochelinae comprises only two genera, Pylocheles A. Milne Edwards, 1880, and Cheiroplatea Bate, 1888. Only a single species of Pylocheles is known from Australian waters.

Diagnosis

Shield incompletely separated from posterior part of carapace, linea transversalis being interrupted medially. Telson composed of two articulated plates. Propodus of fourth pereiopods with a line (rarely doubled) of spiniform or squamiform setae along ventral margin. (After Forest 1987).

General References

Forest, J. 1987. Résultats de campagnes MUSORSTOM. Les Pylochelidae ou `pagures symetriques' (Crustacea Coenobitoidea). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 137: 1-254

Milne Edwards, A. 1880. No. 1. Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in the Caribbean Sea, 1877, '78, '79, by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake". Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., Commanding. VIII. Etudes préliminaires sur les Crustacés. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 8(1): 1-68 pls 1-2

Spence Bate, C. 1888. Report on the Crustacea Macrura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 24: 1-942, i-xc figs 1-76 pls 1-150

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