Alainodromia McLay, 1998

Mclay, Colin L. & Hosie, Andrew M., 2022, The sponge crabs of Western Australia and the Northwest Shelf with descriptions of new genera and species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae), Zootaxa 5129 (3), pp. 301-355 : 303

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5129.3.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B8A0A225-80D4-4631-90F8-5B26BB5415A4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6501035

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3D198782-0628-2E65-FF18-FBC5FE4725B3

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scientific name

Alainodromia McLay, 1998
status

 

Alainodromia McLay, 1998 View in CoL

Type Species. Alainodromia timorensis McLay, 1998 View in CoL .

Diagnosis. Carapace about as wide as long; surface weakly convex granulate and/or tuberculate; rostrum strongly tridentate, projecting anteriorly; anterolateral teeth well developed, flattened, elevated, may be bifid; female sternal grooves end separately, but close together between chelipeds or P2; cheliped without epipod; abdomen with six immobile segments, strongly ridged, tuberculate; chelipeds, P2 and P3 elongate, not massive;P4 and P5 reduced, subchelate; P4 shortest P5 reaching second anterolateral tooth when extended anteriorly; both P4 and P5 dorsal and in same horizontal plain.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Dromiidae

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