Tavares, 1992
Fronto-orbital width always greater than half maximum breadth of carapace. Female abdomen with five or six, very narrow and short segments, plus the telson; Pl 1 vestigial, uniramous; pleopods 2-5 laterally articulated at the tips of the segments, fringed with setae. Male abdomen with four or five segments plus the telson. Propodus and dactylus of P2-P3 with two rows of rather long setae, one ventral, one external. (Guinot 1998)
Type genus: Xeinostoma Stebbing, 1920.
Genera included:
genus Xeinostoma Stebbing, 1920
genus Ketamia Tavares, 1992
genus Krangalangia Tavares, 1992