Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842
The frontal and antero-lateral margins of the carapace are strongly spinose but, behind the frontal submedian lobes, there are never spines. The anterior margin of the buccal cavity has strong spines; The sternal plastron projects as a long acute point between the bases of the third maxillipeds. The merus of the fourth ambulatory legs is spinose on all of its anterior margin. (Serène, 1984)
Type locality: Hawaii.
Range: Atlantic Ocean - from South Carolina, West Indies to Curaçao and Brazil; Red Sea - (Klunzinger, 1913), Abulat (Guinot, 1964b); Kenya - Mombasa (Serène, 1984); Madagascar - Banc du Castor (Serène, 1984); Seychelles - Amirante and Coëtivy Islands (Rathbun, 1911), Aldabra Island (Guinot, 1964), Farquhar (Serène, 1984); Réunion (Serène, 1984); Cargados Carajos Islands (Rathbun, 1911); Maldives (Guinot, 1962b); Chagos Archipelago - Diego Garcia (Rathbun, 1911); Andaman Islands (Alcock, 1898); Japan - Okinawa-jima (Sakai, 1939), Amami-shoto and Yaeyama-retto (Sakai, 1976a); Taiwan; China - Paracel Island (Chen & Lan, 1978), Hainan Island and Paracel Islands (Dai & Yang, 1991); Indonesia - Noordwachter Island (de Man, 1888d); New Britain - Kokopo near Rabaul (Takeda & Nunomura, 1976); Hawaiian Islands - (Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842), Honolulu, Laysan, Kauai, and Penguin Bank (Rathbun, 1906); Line Islands - Palmyra (Edmondson, 1923); Tahiti (Dana, 1852); Tuamotu Archipelago - Hikueru (Forest & Guinot, 1961); west coast of Mexico.