Moreiradromia sarraburei (Rathbun, 1910)

Guinot, Danièle & Quenette, Gwenaël, 2005, The spermatheca in podotreme crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata) and its phylogenetic implications, Zoosystema 27 (2), pp. 267-342 : 294

Moreiradromia sarraburei (Rathbun, 1910)

(not larraburei in Schmitt 1921; see Boyko 1998: 234)

– Female 21.5 × 22.2 mm, Baja of California, San Juan Island, Diguet coll. (MNHN-B 12761). The bulb of the spermatheca is globular and pear-shaped, without the small anterior prominence visible in Dromia , Sternodromia and Lauridromia . The chamber has its two sheets nearly adjacent to each other; its walls are membranous. There is a marked basal thickening. The tube is narrow and very long.

– Immature female 8.1 × 7.9 mm, same data (MNHN-B 12761).

Suture 7/8 is short and hardly extends beyond the level of the P3 coxae, where the gonopore is not opened, and spermathecal aperture is not visible. The two sheets of phragma 7/8 are joined and a delimited tube is not yet discernible at this small size.