Alcock, 1900
Carapace moderately deep, somewhat elongated, its free edges hairy. Antero-lateral margins well curved, often emarginate in places. Fronto-orbital border about three-fifths the greatest breadth of carapace. Front about a third the breadth of the carapace, prominent, convex, entire. Orbits narrow, buttonhole-shaped. Eyestalks tapering, immovable. Eye obsolete, or nearly so. Antennules cramped, folding very obliquely, nearly longitudinally, in proper fossae. Basal antennal article small, the flagellum standing in the orbital hiatus. Epistome sunken, linear, indistinct. Buccal cavern square, completely closed by the third maxillipeds. Palp of third maxillipeds articulating with the antero-internal angle of the merus. (Guinot 1998)
Type species: Typhlocarcinus integrifrons Miers, 1881, by subsequent designation by Tesch, 1918.
Gender masculine.
Species treated:
Typhlocarcinodes crassipes Tesch, 1918
Typhlocarcinodes hirsutus (Borradaile, 1902)