Isocheles Stimpson, 1858

Nucci, Paulo Ricardo & Melo, Gustavo Augusto Schmidt De, 2015, Hermit crabs from Brazil: Family Diogenidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguroidea), except Paguristes, Zootaxa 3947 (3), pp. 327-346 : 337

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scientific name	Isocheles Stimpson, 1858
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Genus Isocheles Stimpson, 1858 View in CoL

Type species. Holopagurus pilosus Holmes, 1900

Diagnosis. Fourteen pairs of gills with entire lamellae. Rostrum obtuse, rounded, shorter than lateral projections. Antennal flagella with long setae inserted ventrally. Third maxillipeds with basis-ischium short, without crista dentata. Chelipeds equal or the left larger than right, but with same ornamentation and corneous claw. Males with 4 unpaired pleopods (pl2–pl5), with external ramous long and strong, inner ramous reduced. In females, 4 pleopods with 2 well-developed rami; pl2–4 very robust, pl5 a little smaller.

References

Stimpson, W. (1858) Prodomus descriptionis Animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federate missa, Cadevaladero Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers ducibus, observavit et descripsit. VII. Crustacea Anomura. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 10, 225 - 252.