Cestopagurus Bouvier, 1897

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Cestopagurus Bouvier, 1897

Diagnosis. Gills distally quadriserial, 11 pairs. Rostrum prominent, acutely triangular. Ocular acicles simple. Crista dentata with 1 accessory tooth. Chelipeds very unequal; right much stronger and distinctly sexually dimorphic. Sternite of somite XII (thoracomere 6, pereopods 3) with roundly rectangular anterior lobe. Pereopod 4 semichelate; propodal rasp with 1 row of corneous scales; no preungual process. Male with long sexual tube on right coxa of pereopod 5, orientated toward left across ventral body surface; left coxa without gonopore, or with gonopore and very short sexual tube directed toward right; pleopods 3–5. Female with pleopods 2–5. Telson with terminal margins horizontal to oblique. Type species: Cestopagurus coutieri Bouvier, 1897 .