Genus Clistocoeloma

A. Milne Edwards, 1873

Carapace square. Dorsal surface uneven, covered with small patches of setae, with a sharp postfrontal ridge. Side walls of carapace and pterygostomial region finely reticulated but only with hairy lines, lines of granules absent. Antero-lateral margins twice emarginated behind the exorbital angles. Front declivous. Basal antennal article entirely excluded from the orbit. Third maxillipeds: merus relatively short. Chelipeds subequal, covered with dense fur. Ambulatory legs unequal, tomentose. (Guinot 1998)

Type species: Clistocoeloma balansae A. Milne Edwards, 1873, by original designation.

Species treated:
Clistocoeloma merguiense de Man, 1888
Clistocoeloma sinensis Shen, 1933

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