Andamancalliax Sakai, 2011

Poore, Gary, 2021, Indo-West Pacific and Australian species of Eucalliacidae with descriptions of four new species (Crustacea: Axiidea), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 80, pp. 1-41 : 2

Andamancalliax Sakai, 2011

Andamancalliax Sakai, 2011: 494–495 .— Sakai, 2018: 738.—

Poore et al., 2019: 126.

Remarks. The genus differs from other eucalliacids in the prominent sharp rostrum and the unequal dissimilar chelipeds, the minor one having elongate fingers. The crista dentata of the type species was not illustrated, but in the new species described here, it comprises few sharp long spines in lieu of a row of similar even teeth seen in other genera. Sakai (2011, 2018) stated that the maxilliped 3 lacks an exopod but in the newly discovered female of what appears to be a different species, a small exopod is present. The genus was diagnosed by Sakai (2011) as having the male pleopod 1 biarticulate, but this was changed by Sakai (2018) to pleopod 1 absent. I believe it is biarticulate, as in other eucalliacids, for the reasons given under remarks on the type species.