GENUS : PARAPENAEUS
Branchiostegal spine absent
No trace of hepatic crest
Longitudinal and transverse sutures present
Fifth pereopod exceeding antennal scale by length of dactyl
Petasma with distolateral lobes spout-like and
as long as distomedian ones
In females, anterior plate of thelycum semicircular,
articulating to intermediate plate and with a median groove which continues
on intermediate plate, the latter is broad, quadrate and continuous to
posterior sternal plate

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