Genus Nephropides

Manning, 1969

Body entirely covered with evenly placed large pearly tubercles. Eye with pigmented, although small, cornea. Lower margin of rostrum without teeth.Second and third maxillipeds with exopods. Exopod of second maxilliped with a distinct flagellum. Pleura of abdominal somites narrow, hardly if at all overlapping. Pleura of second abdominal somite broadly trapezoid, distal margin obliquely truncate, ending in a blunt posterior tooth. lateral margin of telson unarmed, but for the posterolateral spine.

Type Species: by original designation and monotypy: Nephropides caribaeus Manning, 1969.

A single species known so far.

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