Calliaxina, Nguyen Ngoc-Ho, 2003

Poore, Gary, 2021, Indo-West Pacific and Australian species of Eucalliacidae with descriptions of four new species (Crustacea: Axiidea), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 80, pp. 1-41 : 5

Key to species of Calliaxina

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4. distomesial margin with setae aligned in 2 scarcely separate groups of c. 20 and c. 8 setae; cheliped merus lower margin with few denticles; Red Sea, Jordan, Saudi Arabia; Madagascar C. kensleyi ( Dworschak, 2005)

Major and minor chelipeds propodi distomesial margins with setae aligned in 2 groups of c. 9 setae each; cheliped merus lower margin with 2 or 3 proximal truncated curved teeth and diminishing denticles more distally; Papua New Guinea, SE Australia

C. bulimba ( Poore and Griffin, 1979)

Maxilliped 3 exopod overlapping merus (except in juveniles) 4

Maxilliped 3 exopod reaching half-way along ischium; male pleopod 1 article 2 3 times as long as wide; Japan, East China Sea C. sakaii (de Saint Laurent, 1979)

Antennule peduncle reaching base of antenna peduncle article 5; male pleopod 1 with broad subapical notch, prominent appendix interna, triangular apex; Mediterranean

C. punica (de Saint Laurent and Manning, 1982) 1. Maxilliped 3 exopod vestigial 2