Sternodromia Forest, 1974

Guinot, Danièle & Quenette, Gwenaël, 2005, The spermatheca in podotreme crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata) and its phylogenetic implications, Zoosystema 27 (2), pp. 267-342 : 294

Genus Sternodromia Forest, 1974

Sternodromia was not recognized by most of the authors ( Manning & Holthuis 1981; McLay 1993; Davie 2002). We have resurrected it as a valid genus ( Guinot & Tavares 2003: 49), with S. spinirostris (Miers, 1881) as its type species, and a second species, Dromia monodi Forest & Guinot, 1966 , is added herein. The axial skeleton of Sternodromia shows a more developed partitioning than Dromia ( Fig. 7A ), as well as a different shape of the transverse bridge, which confirms the establishment of the genus by Forest (1974).

Figures

FIG. 7.— Dromia personata (Linnaeus,1758),female 64.2 × 77.1 mm, France (MNHN-B 21971); A, axial skeleton, dorsoventral view, spermathecae in situ, bulb and chamber visible; B, posterior part enlarged, tube discernible on the bottom. Abbreviations: b, bulb; br, transverse bridge; c, spermathecal chamber; i.p., intertagmal phragma; t, spermathecal tube; 8, sternite 8. (See Secretan 1998: fig. 11). Scale bar: A, 1 cm.