Adams & White, 1849
Dorsal surface of carapace deep brick red, with four transverse hands of white, being fringed with white along whole margin. Carapace hexagonal, flattened for its most part of dorsal surface, with ill-defined regions. Front almost transverse, with a small median notch. Inner angle of supraorbital border more or less tuberculated, only slightly protruded forward behind frontal margin. Antero-lateral border strongly divergent, divided into three subequal lobes by two small notches, isolated by a triangular notch from epibranchial tooth which is also somewhat tuberculated and sharply pointed. Chelipeds stout, slightly more than twice the length of carapace. (Takeda, 1989)
Type locality: Borneo and Philippine Islands.
Range: Gulf of Mannar; Strait of Malacca (Buitendijk, 1950); Singapore (Lanchester, 1900, Buitendijk, 1950, Johnson, 1962, Chia et al., 1993, Chia & Ng, 1998); Japan - Oshima Passage, Amami-Oshima (Takeda, 1989); Taiwan - (Chia & Ng, 1998), Tingch'ieting (Lin, 1949); Hong Kong (Stimpson, 1857c, 1907, Gee, 1925); Vietnam - (Serène et al., 1958), Gulf of Tonkin (Chia, Ng & Vandenspiegel, 1993, Chia & Ng, 1998); South China Sea - (Chia, Ng & Vandenspiegel, 1993), Nansha Islands (Chen & Xu, 1991); Philippines - (Adams & White, 1849, Chia et al., 1993), Bohol, Basilan Straits, west off Manila, Jolo, and Marengas Island (Chia & Ng, 1998); Indonesia - Makassar Strait, Moluccas, Doe Roa, and Ambon (Chia & Ng, 1998), Borneo (Adams & White, 1849); Papua New Guinea - south-east Duangit (Chia & Ng, 1998); 10-140 m.