FIGURE 32 in Significance of the sexual openings and supplementary structures on the phylogeny of brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura), with new nomina for higher-ranked podotreme taxa

FIGURE 32. Coxo-sternal condition in Palicidae (A, B, E), Crossotonotidae (C, D), schematic representation. A, B, Palicus caronii (Roux, 1830), male 9.0 × 11.0 mm, Canary Is. (MNHN-B16335). A, thoracic sternum and abdomen in situ; B, detail of A. C, D, Crossotonotus spinipes (de Man, 1888), New Caledonia (MNHN-B26811): detail of sternites 7 and 8. C, male 36.0 × 44.0 mm; D, female 29.0 × 32.0 mm. E, Palicus zonatus (Rathbun, 1893), male 10.0 × 13.0 mm, Gulf of California (MNHN- B26745): ventral view, abdomen removed; invaginated sternite 8 has been partially cut to expose underlying penis (left). a1, abdominal somite 1; b, press-button; cx4, cx5, P4, P5 coxae; e3–e7, episternites 3–7; l, invagination line of sternite 8; m.l., median line; p, penis (schematically represented too thin, straight in A and B, correctly represented thick and at an angle in Fig. E); p5, pereopod 5; 6, 7, thoracic sternites 6, 7; 8, thoracic sternite 8 in the form of double plate. Scale bar: 3 mm (E).