INFRAORDER : CARIDEA
Fingers of chela are spoon shaped and with brushes of long hairs
Fingers of chela normal
Carpus of the second pair of legs not subdivided
First pereopods with normal chela
First pereopods subchelate and the rostrum is short
Carpus of the second pair of legs subdivided
Chela of the first pair of pereopods small or absent
Chelae of the first pair of pereopods prominent

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