(Hess, 1865)
Lateral border of carapace diverging immediately behind exorbital angle; lower anterior margin of front with a feeble median concavity; lateral border of carapace with median convexity. Upper border of dactylus of male cheliped with a longitudinal row of 9-10 acute conical dactylar tubercles; upper margin of palm bearing a coarsely serrulate longitudinal granular line; inner face of palm without transverse granular row; inferior margin of fixed finger with acute granules; dactyli of pereiopods 2-5 slightly shorter than half propodi and thickly tomentose. (Davie 1997)
Type locality: Sydney, Australia.
Range: Nicobar Islands (Alcock, 1900b); Taiwan - (Dai & Yang, 1991), T'ai-nan (Sakai, 1939, Lin, 1949), Tan-shui (Sakai, 1976a); Indonesia - Lirung, Kepulauan Talaud (Tesch, 1918a); Bertrand Islands (Sendler, 1923); Australia - Sydney (Hess, 1865); Caroline Islands - Yap (Sendler, 1923); Marshall Islands - Ebon (Rathbun, 1906); Fiji; Samoa (A. Milne Edwards, 1869); Hawaiian Islands - Oahu (Rathbun, 1906).