Michelopagurus McLaughlin, 1997

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 : 124

Michelopagurus McLaughlin, 1997

Diagnosis. Gills quadriserial, 11 pairs. Rostrum as broadly rounded or obtusely and bluntly triangular lobe. Ocular acicles simple. Crista dentata with 1 accessory tooth. Chelipeds subequal, right appreciably stouter. Sternite of somite XII (thoracomere 6, pereopods 3) with subrectangular anterior lobe. Pereopod 4 semichelate; propodal rasp with 1 row, or rarely incomplete double of scales; no distinctive preungual process. Right, left, or both coxae of pereopods 5 of male with short sexual tube partially masked by tuft of setae; pleopods 3–5. Female with paired, modified pleopod 1; pleopods 2–5. Telson with terminal margins rounded. Type species: Pagurodes limatulus Henderson, 1888 .