Agaricochirus McLaughlin, 1981

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 : 119

Agaricochirus McLaughlin, 1981

Diagnosis. Gills biserial, 11 pairs. Rostrum obtusely triangular. Ocular acicles simple. Crista dentata with 1 accessory tooth. Right chela generally ovate, armature usually as mushroom-shaped tubercles. Carpi of ambulatory legs lacking dorsodistal spine. Sternite of somite XII (thoracomere 6, pereopods 3) with anterior lobe absent, reduced and styliform, or small and subquadrate. Pereopod 4 semichelate; propodal rasp with several rows of corneous scales; preungual process small. Coxae of male pereopods 5 occasionally with slight papilla protruding from one or both gonopores; pleopods 3–5. Female with paired, modified pleopod 1; pleopods 2–5. Uropods symmetrical or nearly so, protopods produced posteriorly. Telson with median cleft usually broadly U-shaped, posterior lobes usually symmetrical, terminal margins unarmed. Type species: Pylopagurus boletifer A. Milne-Edwards and Bouvier, 1893 .