Pygmaeopagurus McLaughlin, 1986

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 : 126

Pygmaeopagurus McLaughlin, 1986

Diagnosis. Gills biserial, 11 pairs. Rostrum triangular. Ocular acicles simple. Crista dentata with 1 accessory tooth. Chelipeds grossly unequal; right exceptionally large. Sternite of somite XII (thoracomere 6, pereopods 3) with semicircular anterior lobe. Pereopod 4 simple or weakly semichelate; propodal rasp with 1 row of corneous scales; no preungual process. Male with short to moderate, rod-like sexual tube on coxa of left pereopod 5, no gonopore on coxa of right; pleopods 3–5. Female with single gonopore on coxa of left pereopod 3; pleopods 2–5. Telson with terminal margins oblique. Type species: Pygmaeopagurus hadrochirus McLaughlin, 1986 .