Gebiidea, DE SAINT LAURENT, 1979

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 137

Key to species of Gebiidea

1. Pereopod 1 subchelate. Rostrum not flat, densely setose. Southern California southward..... Naushonia macginitei (Laomediidae)

– Pereopod 1 chelate. Rostrum flat, densely setose. Washington to Baja California ............................ 2 ( Upogebiidae )

2. Postocular tooth absent or very tiny. South of Point Conception................................ Upogebia macginitieorum

– Postocular tooth robust. May live north of Point Conception........................................................ 3

3. Merus of pereopod 3 with proximolateral teeth...................................................... Upogebia lepta

– Merus of pereopod 3 without proximolateral teeth................................................................ 4

4. Short fixed finger of chela with slender, laterally compressed apex. Alaska to Morro Bay , California, intertidal................................................................................................... Upogebia pugettensis

– Short fixed finger of chela with broad apex flattened, corneous on prehensile edge. San Miguel I., California, subtidal............................................................................................... Upogebia onychion