McLay, 1993
Carapace may be wider than long or longer than wide, surface convex, granular and usually aerolate. Rostrum tridentate, projecting, no postorbital tooth. Antero-lateral teeth usually broad granulated lobes, but may be absent; last antero-lateral tooth not strongly developed. Female sternal grooves end apart on small tubercles between bases of first legs. Cheliped usually without an epipod, but it may be present; no podobranch. First two pairs of legs without podobranchs; tuberculate and granular, inner margins of dactyli armed with up to seven small spines. Last two pairs of legs very reduced, fourth pair sometimes slightly longer. Abdomen of six free segments, whose surface is usually sculptured and granulate. Uropod plates well developed, used in abdominal locking mechanism; posterior margin of telson may be bilobed. (Türkay 1995; Davie 1996)
Type species: Epidromia granulata Kossmann, 1878, by McLay's designation in 1993.
Species included:
Epigodromia areolata (Ihle, 1913)
Epigodromia ebalioides (Alcock, 1899)
Epigodromia gilesii (Alcock, 1899)
Epigodromia globosa (Lewinsohn, 1977)
Epigodromia granulata (Kossmann, 1878)
Epigodromia nodosa (Sakai, 1936)
Epigodromia rotunda McLay, 1993
Epigodromia rugosa McLay, 1993
Epigodromia sculpta (Haswell, 1882)