White, 1852
Lateral margins of the carapace strongly concave. Antero-lateral margins of the carapace unarmed behind the exorbital angles. Exorbital angles directed straightly outward. Front narrow, constricted between eyestalks, with acuminate angles. Eyestalks extremely long, thickening towards eye; cornea forming a bulge. Antennae short. Chelipeds very elongate and slender. Ambulatory legs unarmed; propodus broadened in the median; dactyli slender and elongate. First segments of male abdomen not covering the whole space between the last pairs of legs. Thoracic sternum very broadened. Penis lying in a long sternal canal. G1 rather stout, with a developed apical lobe. G2 longer than G1, with a truncate and bifid apex. (Guinot 1998)
Type species: Ommatocarcinus macgillivrayi White, 1852.
Species treated:
Ommatocarcinus fibriophthalmus Yokoya, 1933
Ommatocarcinus macgillivrayi White, 1852
Ommatocarcinus pulcher Barnard, 1950