Subgenus Liomera

Dana, 1851

The front is not noticeably projecting. The carapace, chelipeds, sternal plastron and abdomen are smooth or granular or stippled but never sponge-like as in species of the sub-genus Actites. The ambulatory legs are never with cristiform carinae on their anterior and posterior margins; they are smooth or granular and sometimes nodular. The ambulatory legs are shorter and more squarish; the merus of P4 is less than three times longer than broad. In adult males the extremity of the cheliped merus does not extend (or hardly) beyond the margin of the carapace. The first pleopod of the male is of a diverse shape but never terminates as a short rounded lobe; it is always furnished with more or less numerous setae, usually arranged in a row on one margin of the preapical part. (Serène, 1984)

Species treated:
Liomera bella (Dana, 1852)
Liomera caelata (Odhner, 1925)
Liomera cinctimana (White, 1847)
Liomera edwardsi Kossmann, 1877
Liomera laevis (A. Milne Edwards, 1873)
Liomera margaritata (A. Milne Edwards, 1873)
Liomera monticulosa (A. Milne Edwards, 1873)
Liomera rubra (A. Milne Edwards, 1865)
Liomera rugata (H. Milne Edwards, 1834)
Liomera stimpsoni (A. Milne Edwards, 1865)
Liomera striolata (Odhner, 1925)
Liomera venosa (H. Milne Edwards, 1834)

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