Genus Phoxocephalus Stebbing, 1888.

• Stebbing, 1906. 134.

• Schellenberg, 1942. 173.

“Body compressed. Hood more or less acute. Sideplates with a few simple setae on lower margin. Fourth not expanded much backwards, 5th with hind lobe rounded. Antenna 1 shorter than antenna 2, the latter in male with long filiform flagellum, calceoliferous. Mandible with well-developed molar and 2nd and 3rd joints of palp not greatly expanded. Maxilla 1, outer plate with 7–9 spines, palp 1-jointed, small, with slender spines. Maxilla 2, plates nearly equal. Maxillipeds, outer plates scarcely larger than inner, fringed with curved spine-teeth, 3rd joint of palp oval. Gnathopod 2 larger than gnathopod 1. Peraeopod 3 short, 2nd joint expanded. Peraeopods 3 and 4, 4th and 5th joints not expanded. Peraeopod 5, 2nd joint large, clypeiform. Uropod 3 in female, inner ramus unarmed, much shorter than outer, in male much larger than in female, both rami