Xylopagurus A. Milne Edwards, 1880

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 : 128

Xylopagurus A. Milne Edwards, 1880

Diagnosis. Gills biserial or distally quadriserial, 13 pairs. Rostrum obtusely triangular. Ocular acicles multispinose. Crista dentata with 1 accessory tooth. Chelipeds grossly unequal; palm of right with prominent spine or protuberance at mesial dorsodistal angle. Sternite of somite XII (thoracomere 6, pereopods 3) with narrow or subtriangular anterior lobe. Pereopod 4 semichelate; propodal rasp with numerous rows of small, corneous scales; no preungual process. Pereopod 5 subchelate, sometimes sexual dimorphic. Male with pleopods 1 and 2 paired, modified; no unpaired pleopods. Female with pleopods 2-4. Tergites of abdominal somites 2–5 as narrow calcified plates, tergite 6 heavily calcified and operculate; uropods symmetrical. Telson without lateral indentations, broader than long, terminal margin entire. Type species: Xylopagurus rectus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 .