Richters, 1880
Carapace rudely semicircular in outline, convex fore and aft, strongly declivous anteriorly. Dorsal surface with the regions indistinct and incomplete. Anterior and antero-lateral margins well arched, forming a common curve with the long postero-lateral margins. Antero-lateral margins entire and diverging backwards. Fronto-orbital border less than half the greatest breadth of carapace. Front less than a fifth the breadth of the carapace, prominent and bilobed. Orbits completely filled by the immovable and firmly fixed eyestalks. Eyes small, obsolete or absent. Basal antennal article short; flagellum slender, naked, standing in the orbital hiatus. Buccal cavern completely or almost completely closed by the third maxillipeds. Palp of third maxillipeds articulating with the antero-internal angle of the merus; outer angle of the merus not produced, rounded. Chelipeds a little unequal, much more massive and rather longer than the legs; propodus compressed, high; palm short and compressed, with sharp edges. Ambulatory legs slender, unarmed; dactyli styliform, regularly decreasing in size from P2 to P5. (Guinot 1998)
Species treated:
Xenophthalmodes morsei Rathbun, 1932