Paguridium Forest, 1961

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

Paguridium Forest, 1961

Diagnosis. Gills biserial, 11 pairs. Rostrum as broadly rounded lobe. Ocular acicles simple. Crista dentata with 1 accessory tooth. Chelipeds unequal, right largest. Sternite of somite XII (thoracomere 6, pereopod 3) not described. Pereopod 4 semichelate; propodal rasp with 1 row of corneous scales. Male with coxae of pereopod 5 markedly asymmetrical; gonopore on coxa of left masked by tuft of long, stiff setae directed from left to right and extending across ventral body surface, usually also with papilla or very short sexual tube; no unpaired pleopods. Female with pleopods 2–5. Telson with terminal margins straight. Type species: Eupagurus?minimus Chevreux and Bouvier, 1892 .