Holthuis & Manning, 1990
Carapace slightly wider than long, surface moderately sculptured, without granules; cervical groove deep; lateral borders without an epibranchial tooth or tubercle. Afferent branchial orifices narrow and placed somewhat before bases of chelipeds, being separated from chelipeds by narrow process of carapace reaching down to sternum. Dactyli of second and third legs with distinct fringes of hairs on upper and lower margins. Last two pairs of pereiopods distinctly subchelate, dactylus closing against tubercle of propodus. (Türkay 1995)
Type species: Dorippe japonica von Siebold, 1824.
Gender feminine.
Species treated:
Heikea arachnoides (Manning & Holthuis, 1986)
Heikea japonica (von Siebold, 1824)