Leach, 1817
Carapace pentagonal, hexagonal, subcircular or ovate. Dorsal surface uneven, usually tuberculate, nodular, eroded or wrinkled, regions well-defined by grooves or by inequalities of surface. Orbits open, communicating with antennulary fossae. Basal antennal article movable, not fused with suborbital lobe. Chelipeds: fingers slender and sharp, movable in an almost horizontal plane. (Guinot 1998)
Type species: Ebalia bryerii Leach, 1817, a subjective junior synonym of Cancer tumefactus Montagu, 1808, by subsequent designation by H. Milne Edwards, 1837.
Gender feminine.
Species treated:
Ebalia bituberculata Miers, 1879
Ebalia cryptocnemoides Takeda & Miyake, 1972
Ebalia dimorphoides Sakai, 1963
Ebalia glans (Alcock, 1896)
Ebalia hayamaensis Sakai, 1963
Ebalia humilis Takeda, 1977
Ebalia longimana Ortmann, 1892
Ebalia longispinosa Ihle, 1918
Ebalia nudipes Sakai, 1963
Ebalia sakaii Takeda & Miyake, 1972
Ebalia scabriuscula Ortmann, 1892
Ebalia tosaensis Sakai, 1963
Ebalia tuberculosa (A. Milne Edwards, 1873)
Ebalia yokoyai Sakai, 1965