(Stimpson, 1858)
Postero-lateral junction of carapace rounded; hand of cheliped extremely slender, much less massive than arm; 4 to 6 spines on anterior border of arm; mesogastric region of carapace with transverse granulated ridges; lateral frontal teeth almost the same width as medians. (Davie 1999)
Type locality: Hong Kong.
Range: India - Madras (Henderson, 1893, Alcock, 1899a), off River Hooghly (Chopra, 1935); Sri Lanka - Gulf of Mannar and off Mutwal Island (Laurie, 1906); Gulf of Martaban (Henderson, 1893); West of Malay Peninsula - Thailand (Stephenson, 1972a); Taiwan - off Chi-lung (Takeda & Miyake, 1969d), Tai-nan Province, Kaohsiung Province, Tung-kang, and I-lan Province (Huang & Yu, 1997); China - Tsimei, Fujian Province (Shen, 1940b), Guangxi, Guangdong including Hainan Island, Fujian (Dai & Yang, 1991); Hong Kong (Stimpson, 1907); Gulf of Thailand (Rathbun, 1910a); Singapore (Walker, 1887, Lanchester, 1900, Nobili, 1903c, Shen, 1937, Stephenson, 1972a); Nansha Islands (Yang & Dai, 1994); Indonesia - Borneo (A. Milne Edwards, 1861), Java Sea, Sunda Strait, Ambon Bay and Makassar (Stephenson, 1972a), Padaido Island, Irian Jaya (Stephenson, 1975); south of New Guinea (Miers, 1886); Australia - Port Curtis (Grant & McCulloch, 1906), Albany Passage, Townsville and Port Curtis (Stephenson & Campbell, 1959), Bowen (Stephenson & Rees, 1968b), Moreton Bay (Campbell & Stephenson, 1970), Arnhem Bay, N.T.