(Takeda & Miyake, 1970)

(Monotypic genus, thus generic description is repeated):
Carapace about as wide as long, surface smooth, tomentose. Rostrum tridentate, median tooth very small, deflexed. Female sternal grooves end apart on low tubercles behind bases of the first legs. Antero-lateral teeth small. Cheliped with an epipod. Legs not knobbed or ridged. Propodi and dactyli of first two pairs of legs equal in length, inner margins of dactyli armed with five or fewer small spines. Fourth leg shorter than second leg. Uropod absent from abdomen, joint between last two segments freely movable. (Türkay 1995)

Type locality: East China Sea, 32°24.8'N, 129°24.7'E.
Range: East China Sea (Takeda & Miyake, 1970a).

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Crustacea
Order Decapoda
Suborder Pleocyemata
Infraorder Podotremata
Superfamily Dromioidea
Family Dromiidae
Genus Tunedromia
Species Tunedromia yamashitai

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Not included in WoRMS database

Scientific synonyms and common names

Petalomera yamashitai Takeda & Miyake, 1970a: 203, pl. 1, figs A-B.
Tunedromia yamashitai McLay, 1993: 134.

Tune-kaikamuri [Japanese]
kaikamuri, Tune- [Japanese]

McLay, C.L., 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. In: A. Crosnier (ed.), Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 156: 111-251, figs 1-19, tabl. 1-8.

Takeda, M. & S. Miyake, 1970a. Crabs from the East China Sea IV. Gymnopleura, Dromiacea and Oxystomata. Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, 16(3): 193-235, figs 1-6, pl. 1.

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