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Superfamily SPHAEROMATOIDEA Latreille, 1825


Compiler and date details

April 2011 - Kelly Merrin

Diagnosis

Head not laterally overlapped by coxae of pereopods 1; mandibular molar triturative; pleonite 1 free, 2-4 fused, 5 fused to pleotelson (or with greater pleonite fusion); pleopod 5 with scale patches; uropod with exopod free (if present), endopod fused to peduncle.