Phimochirus 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 : 125

Phimochirus McLaughlin, 1981

Diagnosis. Gills biserial, 11 pairs. Rostrum usually triangular, occasionally only as rounded lobe. Ocular acicles simple. Crista dentata with 1 to several accessory teeth. Chelipeds markedly unequal; right chela subovate to subcircular. Sternite of somite XII (thoracopod 6, pereopods 3) with subsemiovate to subsemicircular anterior lobe. Pereopod 4 semichelate; propodal rasp with 1 row of corneous scales; preungual process prominent. Male with pleopods 3–5. Female with pleopod 1 paired, modified; pleopods 2–5. Telson with terminal margins oblique. Type species: Eupagurus operculatus Stimpson, 1859 .