Latreille, 1825
Dorsal surface of carapace, on denudation, is roughened by sparingly distributed granules or pits and the regions fairly well demarcated. The entire animal is covered with a coat of long yellowish hairs but the outline of carapace and appendages is perceptible in natural condition. The external orbital tooth ahs no accessory tooth. Carapace more than three fourths as long as broad, antero-lateral borders are not much shorter than postero-lateral, ambulatory legs have the merus very broad but not spinulated. The teeth on antero-lateral borders and also on fingers are longer and stronger; hairs are uniformly distributed on carapace and chelipeds. (T. Sakai, 1976)
Type locality: New Holland = Australia.
Range: Japan - Tokyo Bay (Ortmann, 1893), Sagami Bay (Yokoya, 1933, Sakai, 1965b), Shimoda (Sakai, 1935), Sagami Bay, Ajiro, Shimoda and Nanki Shirahama (Sakai, 1939), from Tokyo Bay to Amami-shoto (Sakai, 1976a), Kii Nagashima (Miyake, 1983); Macclesfield Bank (Balss, 1933b); Philippines - Cebu, Mactan, and Guimaras (Balss, 1933b); Indonesia - Timor (Balss, 1933b); Australia - Port Molle (Haswell, 1882b), Port Phillip and Bass Strait (Miers, 1886), Mast Head Island and Port Curtis (Grant & McCulloch, 1906), Shoalhaven Bight, Gabo Island, Mt. Cann, Bass Strait, Flinders Island, off Falmouth, Kangaroo Island, Spencer Gulf, Cape Jervis, and off Eucla (Rathbun, 1923a), Montague Island, Disaster Bay, Coffs Harbour, North Head, Botany Bay, off Eden, and off Green Cape, N.S.W. (Griffin, 1972), New South Wales (Whitelegge, 1900, Balss, 1933b), Bass Strait (Balss, 1933b), Port Phillip (Griffin & Yaldwyn, 1971), South Australia (Hale, 1927), Albany, W.A. (Balss, 1933b); Samoa - Upolu (Balss, 1933b).