Ctenocheloides Anker, 2010

Poore, Gary C. B., Dworschak, Peter C., Robles, Rafael, Mantelatto, Fernando L. & Felder, Darryl L., 2019, A new classification of Callianassidae and related families (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea) derived from a molecular phylogeny with morphological support, Memoirs of Museum Victoria (Mem. Mus. Vic.) 78, pp. 73-146 : 119

Ctenocheloides Anker, 2010

Ctenocheloides Anker, 2010: 1790–1791 .— Sakai, 2011: 596.—

Poore, 2015b: 142–143.

Type species. Ctenocheloides attenboroughi Anker, 2010 , by original designation and monotypy.

Diagnosis. Cardiac prominence present. Rostrum obsolete or obtusely triangular, flat, not reaching cornea. Maxilliped 3 merus with mesial spine at midpoint. Male major cheliped merus with oblique spine near midpoint of lower margin; propodus swollen, with fine pectinate fingers about as long as palm. Minor cheliped merus lower margin with spine at or near midpoint; propodus cylindrical, slightly swollen at midpoint, about twice as wide as long. Male pleopod 1 article 2 simple, tapering, without coupling hooks. Telson parallel-sided over anterior half, then tapering to evenly rounded apex.

Remarks. The pectinate fingers on the major cheliped are a little longer than the palm, whereas in Ctenocheles the fingers are at least twice as long as the palm, and the spikes more pronounced. Three species are known ( Poore, 2015b). Ctenocheloides boucheti is a sister taxon to two species of Ctenocheles in the molecular analysis (Robles et al., in press).