Coenobitidae (Nakasone, 1988)

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 : 113

Key to genera of Coenobitidae

1. Pereopod 4 elongate, chelate; abdomen somewhat flexed ( Fig 1a ); rostrum well developed... Birgus Leach, 1815

— Pereopod 4 short, not chelate; abdomen spirally twisted ( Fig 1b ); rostrum obsolete.... Coenobita Latreille, 1829

Figures

Figure 1. Morphological diversity among members of the Paguroidea. a, b, Coenobitidae, c, Pylochelidae; d–g, Diogenidae; h–k, Lithodidae, l–o, Paguridae, p, q, Parapaguridae: a, Birgus latro Leach; b, Coenobita clypeatus (Fabricius); c, Trizocheles spinosus (Henderson); d, Allodardanus bredini Haig and Provenzano; e, Dardanus venosus (H. Milne Edwards); f, Clibanarius arethusa De Man; g, Calcinus tibicen (Herbst); h, Cryptolithodes sitchensis Brandt; i, Hapalogaster dentata (De Haan); j, Sculptolithodes derjugini Makarov; k, Lithodes murrayi Henderson; l, Labidochirus splendescens (Owen); m, Propagurus gaudichaudi (H. Milne Edwards); n, Ostraconotus spatulipes A. Milne–Edwards; o, Porcellanopagurus edwardsi Filhol; p, Tylaspis anomala Henderson; q, Probeebei mirabilis Boone. [a, f after Alcock, 1905; b, from Chace and Hobbs, 1969; c, k, p, from Henderson, 1888; d, e, g, after Chace et al. 1985; h, from Makarov, 1938; i, j, from Vinogradov, 1950; l from McLaughlin, 1974; m, from Benedict, 1901 as Eupagurus patagonensis Benedict; n, after A. Milne-Edwards and Bouvier, 1893; o, after Forest, 1951; q, from Wolff, 1961; not to scale.]