Goreopagurus McLaughlin, 1988

McLaughlin, P. A., 2003, Illustrated keys to families and genera of the superfamily Paguroidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), with diagnoses of genera of Paguridae, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 60 (1), pp. 111-144 : 122

Goreopagurus McLaughlin, 1988

Diagnosis. Gills biserial, 11 pairs. Rostrum obtusely triangular. Ocular acicles simple. Crista dentata with 1 accessory tooth. Chelipeds grossly unequal, right very elongate, with prominently produced ventral carpal margin. Sternite of somite XII (thoracomere 6, pereopods 3) with subovate to subrectangular anterior lobe. Pereopod 4 semichelate; propodal rasp with 1 row of corneous scales; preungual process present or absent. Male with short, posteriorly or laterally directed sexual tube on coxa of right pereopod 5; left coxa often with papilla or very short sexual tube; pleopods 3–5. Female with pleopod 1 paired, modified; pleopods 2–5. Telson with terminal margins straight or oblique. Type species: Pagurus piercei Wass, 1963 .