Genus Podocerus Leach, 1814

Diagnosis.

Body often with dorsal elevations or carinate, pereon segments 2 and 3 fused. Antenna 2 longer than antenna 1, stout. Head not globular, buccal mass similar in size to head. Coxae discontiguous. Urosomites separate, urosomite 1 elongate. Uropods 1–3 dissimilar in structure; uropod 3 greatly reduced.