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Genus Podochela Stimpson, 1860
Key to species
| Adapted from Rathbun, 1925]
Family Majidae 505
1. Postorbital protuberance a large lobe 2
Postorbital protuberance a granule or wanting 3
2. (1) Supraorbital margin armed with two long spines; sternal segments of male
elevated, flat, closely and finely granulate; palm of adult male not inflated; rostrum
long, spiniform, arched upward P. curvirostris
Supraorbital margin armed with series of spinules or small spines; sternal
segments of male not closely and finely granulate (palm of adult male not inflated;
fingers contiguous; sternum of male laminate, each lamina overlapping one behind
it; surface sparingly granulate with scattered, pointed granules; prominent lobe
behind and below postorbital lobe; rostrum short, pointed) P. lamelligera
3. (1) Rostrum long, ending in spine; palm inflated in male (rostrum less than half as
long as postrostral portion of carapace; gape between fingers of adult male
subtriangular, deep at proximal end; size small, not over 13 mm long)
P. gracilipes
Rostrum short, not ending in spine 4
4. (3) Rostrum thick, subtriangular, not hollow beneath (propodus of first walking leg
four or more times as long as dactylus; propodi of last two legs considerably
longer than dactyli and slightly curved) P. macrodera
Rostrum thin, hood-shaped, hollow beneath 5
5. (4) Dactyli of last three walking legs curved, short, contained twice, or more than
twice, in their respective propodi; cardiac prominence low P. nisei
Dactyli of last three walking legs less curved and longer, those of last two pairs
contained less than twice in their respective propodi; cardiac prominence higher
and more acute or ending in short spine P. sidneyi