Moosa & Serène, 1981
Frontal border cut into two lobes and laterally continuous (without marked notch) with supraorbital borders. Eye peduncles with an acicular process, resembling a crescent-like or sickle-shaped blade. Ambulatory legs with fine, not coarse, granules; second pereiopods only a little smaller than the two following pairs, propodus and dactylus flattened (not filiform) on the second to fourth pereiopods; fifth pereiopods strongly reduced in size, slender, filiform, and dorsally positioned. (Türkay 1995)
Type species: Cymopolia whitei Miers, 1884.
Species treated:
Palicoides kyusyuensis (Yokoya, 1933)
Palicoides longimanus (Miyake, 1936)