(Gordon, 1931)
Hepatic margin with a laterally directed lobe with broad obtuse base and subacute to rounded apically; margin between postorbital and hepatic lobes nearly straight; branchial region lacking a high tubercle near antero-medial angle; anterior dorso-lateral margin of branchial region produced laterally; merus of first ambulatory leg trigonal, propodus compressed. (Davie 1996)
Type locality: Sagami Bay, Japan.
Range: Japan - Fukuura (Sakai, 1935), Sagami Bay, Suruga Bay and Tosa Bay (Sakai, 1938a), Sagami Bay and Tosa Bay (Sakai, 1965b), Sagami Bay, Mikawa Bay, Kii Minabe and Tosa Bay (Sakai, 1976a), Ashizuri-misaki (Miyake, 1983), Sagami Sea (Griffin & Tranter, 1986a), Tosa Bay (Baba, 1986), Suruga Bay (Takeda, 1997), Sagami Bay, Kii Nagashima, Kii Minabe, and Tosa Bay (Muraoka, 1998); Taiwan; Philippines - Verde Island Passage (Serène & Vadon, 1981); 50-720 m.