Stimpson, 1858
Body of very small size. Carapace triangular-pyriform, extremely narrowed anteriorly, not covering bases of legs. On the dorsal surface of the carapace no linea homolica and no distinct horizontal grooves; no "human face" visible. Epistome very developed, forming a kind of "neck". A pair of very long and divergent pseudorostral (= supraorbital) spines on every side of the deflexed rostrum. Orbit absent. Basal article of ocular peduncle longer than terminal article. Male abdomen narrower than the thoracic sternum. Third maxilliped suboperculiform. Female abdomen with segments 4-6 fused into cupped plate; often a brood cavity. Ambulatory legs extremely long and slender. P5 reduced in size, dorsal, either with a small terminal apparatus, or with the dactylus not closing against propodal spinules and usually trailing. Carrying behaviour not surely recorded. (Guinot 1998)
Genera treated:
genus Eplumula Williams, 1982
genus Latreillia Roux, 1830