Genus Beuroisia

Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1981

Relatively big size. Carapace trapezoidal in outline, much widened and expanded anteriorly, with a short antero-lateral margin. Body not thick. Dorsal surface of the carapace very flat and hardly areolated, with only the anterior portion of 3M well marked. Antero-lateral border very thin, lamellar, strongly cut in four or five produced, lamellate teeth, the first fused with the exorbital angle and vey wide, the last being reduced and spiniform. Front relatively narrow, subtruncate, and with a faint median sinus. Buccal cavern not widened anteriorly. Endostomial ridges always marked posteriorly and sometimes anteriorly with a tubercle or crest. Third maxillipeds with the merus not produced at the antero-external angles. Chelipeds unequal, relatively long or stout; strong heterochely and heterodonty. Ambulatory legs rather long, subcylindrical. Sternite 8 completely covered by the male abdomen. Male Pl 2 longer than Pl 1. (Guinot 1998)

Type species: Beuroisia duhameli forma duhameli Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1981, by original designation.

Species treated:
Beuroisia major (Sakai, 1978)

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