Hemipagurus Smith, 1881

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 : 122

Hemipagurus Smith, 1881

Diagnosis. Gills biserial, 11 pairs. Rostrum as broadly rounded lobe. Ocular acicles simple. Crista dentata somewhat reduced, with 1 accessory tooth. Chelipeds elongate, unequal, right stouter. Sternite of somite XII (thoracomere 6, pereopods 3) with rectangular, sometimes armed, anterior lobe. Pereopod 4 semichelate; propodal rasp with 1 row of corneous scale; preungual process prominent. Right coxa of pereopod 5 of male with long sexual tube directed toward exterior and curved over dorsal surface of abdomen toward left; left coxa sometimes with papilla or very short sexual tube; pleopods 3–5. Female with pleopods 2–5. Telson with terminal margins oblique. Type species: Hemipagurus gracilis Smith, 1881 . (Genus reinstated by Asakura, 2001)