Halocaridinides Fujino & Shokita, 1975

Fransen, Charles H. J. M. & Damme, K. Van, 2018, A new stygobiont species of Halocaridinides Fujino & Shokita, 1975 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea, Atyidae) from caves on Socotra Island (Yemen), with notes on the genus, Zootaxa 4442 (2), pp. 241-261 : 257

Key to species of Halocaridinides Fujino & Shokita, 1975

1. Rostrum acute; eyes with some pigment.................................................................... 2

- Rostrum blunt; eyes without any pigment; one spine at uropodal diaeresis; endopod of first pleopod in males devoid of marginal setae........................................................................ H. socotraensis sp. nov.

2. Endopod of male pleopod 1 shorter and more slender than exopod, gradually tapering distally, tip blunt; number of spines at uropodal diaeresis 1–9.............................................. H. trigonophthalma ( Fujino & Shokita, 1975)

- Endopod of male pleopod 1 approximately ½ length of exopod, broad and rounded distally; number of spines at uropodal diaeresis 1–3................................................... H. fowleri (Gordon, in Gordon & Monod, 1968)