Guinot, 1967
Regions of the dorsal surface of the carapace hardly projecting and separated by feeble furrows; its surface regularly and similarly granular. 2M poorly developed, and incompletely divided into two longitudinal parts; 2L and 5L poorly defined. Small and regularly spaced granules, specially on the dorsal surface of the carapace, more acute and more dense on the outer surface of the palm of larger cheliped. Antero-lateral margins of the carapace with four teeth behind the exorbital angle. Front not extending beyond the supraorbital angles, the first (E) and the fourth (S) teeth being smaller than the second (N) and the third (T). Male chelipeds very unequal, strongly dissimilar; the palm of the larger one more swollen and more granular than that of the smaller cheliped. Fingers of the larger cheliped having more or less pointed extremities that hardly cross each other when closed. Ambulatory legs elongated and feebly granular on the superior margin. Male abdomen short; segment 6 and telson broader than long; telson with its distal margin rounded. Male Pl 1 squat and twisted, with spiniform tubercles on the distal half and with an apical bouquet of some (5-6) strong and long setae, curved backwards. (Guinot 1998)
Type species: Micropanope melanodactyla (A. Milne Edwards, 1867), by original designation.
Gender feminine.
Species treated:
Nanocassiope alcocki (Rathbun, 1902)