Stimpson, 1858
Carapace rounded to subquadrangular. Dorsal surface with regions poorly or fully indicated. Antero-lateral margins entire, dentate or lobate. Buccal cavern broader than long. Third maxillipeds broad; merus as long as or longer than ischium; the last two articles slender. Chelipeds equal to subequal, more swollen in males; dactylus generally with a big proximal denticulated tooth. Ambulatory legs short, stout. Abdomen with variable fused segments, sometimes the fifth constricted. Female openings sternal. Male openings sternal. G1 generally strongly recurved, extremely characteristic. (Guinot 1998)
Genera treated:
genus Baruna Stebbing, 1904
genus Camptandrium Stimpson, 1858
genus Cleistostoma de Haan, 1833
genus Deiratonotus Manning & Holthuis, 1981
genus Mortensenella Rathbun, 1909
genus Paracleistostoma de Man, 1895