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Family Leucosiidae Samouelle, 1819 (Pebble Crabs)

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Carapace with varied forms of pyriform to oval and subcircular, completely flat to strongly convex, usually glabrous, smooth or with teeth and spines. Front narrow, more or less produced. Orbits and eyes markedly small. Third maxillipeds long, with long and triangular merus, completely covering buccal cavern, exopod broad. Afferent branchial canals running along the sides of buccal cavern, opening at bases of third maxillipeds. Chelipeds nearly equal, usually long, robust. Walking legs normally narrow, with simple dactylus. Abdomen of males and females with somites 3–5 or 3–6 tightly fused. G1 longer than G2. Genital opening of males coxal or sternal. Genital opening of females sternal.

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Naderloo, R. (2017). Family Leucosiidae Samouelle, 1819 (Pebble Crabs). In: Atlas of Crabs of the Persian Gulf. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49374-9_14

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