Haigia McLaughlin, 1981

McLaughlin, P. A., 2003, Illustrated keys to families and genera of the superfamily Paguroidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), with diagnoses of genera of Paguridae, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 60 (1), pp. 111-144 : 122

Haigia McLaughlin, 1981

Diagnosis. Gills biserial, 11 pairs. Rostrum narrowly triangular. Ocular acicles simple. Crista dentata with 1 accessory tooth. Chelipeds unequal; right cheliped with chela subquadrate to subrectangular. Sternite of somite XII (thoracomere 6, pereopods 3) with subsemicircular to roundly subrectangular anterior lobe. Pereopod 4 semichelate; propodal rasp with 1 row of corneous scales; no preungual process. Male with pleopods 3–5. Female with pleopod 1 paired, modified, pleopods 2–5. Abdomen flexed or straight. Telson with terminal margins straight or slightly excavated. Type species: Pylopagurus diegensis Scanland and Hopkins, 1969 .