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Diagnosis Prostomium anteriorly rounded, without posterior keel, lacking eyes and occipital tentacle. Peristomium well-developed, partly fused to setiger 1, not elaborated into wings or hood. Palps inserted at anterior dorsal junction of prostomium and peristomium. Setiger 1 lacking notopodial lamellae and setae, neuropodial lamellae bilobed, with capillary setae. Branchiae beginning on setiger 4, continuing for several setigers; elongate, cylindrical, with wrinkled appearance. No interramal or interparapodial pouches. Notopodial setae all capillaries. Neuropodial capillaries of setigers 1 and 2 mostly replaced by unhooded, recurved acicular spines from setiger 3, these spines grading into bidentate hooded hooks by middle of body and continuing to last setiger; ventral sabre setae lacking. Pygidium with 4 unequal lobes. [details]
Etymology Xandaros (Greek), a fabulous sea-creature. [details]
Homonymy Xandaros Maciolek, 1981 is a senior homonym to Xandaros Bishop, 1988, applied to a fossil crab. [Published in: Bishop, G. A. 1988: Two crabs, Xandaros sternbergi (Rathbun 1926) n. gen., and Icriocarcinus xestos n. gen., n. sp., from the Late Cretaceous of San Diego County, California, USA, and Baja California Norte, Mexico. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 21(15): 245-257.] [details]
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