Raninoides personatus

Henderson, 1888

Anterior margin of carapace nearly smooth; inner orbital spine truncate, not protruding; rostral tooth triangular, pointed, reaching beyond external orbital teeth. Cheliped palm with three spines on lower border; fixed finger strongly deflexed; dactyl strongly curved; carpus smooth, with a pair of distal spines, merus without spine. Frontal borders of dactyli of second and third pereiopods slightly curved, that of of fourth pereiopod straight. (Türkay 1995)

Type locality: Ambon.
Range: Bay of Bengal (Alcock, 1896, Bourne, 1922, Chopra, 1933a); Burma (Chopra, 1933a); Japan - Shiono-misaki (Yokoya, 1933); East China Sea; China (Dai & Yang, 1991); South China Sea - Nansha Islands (Chen H. & Xu, 1991); Philippines - Cape Calavite and north of Walan Island (Serène & Umali, 1972), Manila Bay and near Lubang Island (Serène & Vadon, 1981), north of Lubang Island and south of Ragay Gulf (Goeke, 1986); Indonesia - (Serène & Umali, 1972), Makassar Strait (Goeke, 1986), Ambon (Henderson, 1888); Australia - off Onslow (Tyndale-Biscoe & George, 1962); 31-252 m.

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