A. Milne Edwards, 1861
Carapace covered with a fine pile, frontal ridges smooth, protogastrics with markedly serrated outlines, mesogastrics normally serrated or granular and barely interrupted in mid line, epibranchial ridges interrupted by cervical grooves, a broad median cardiac ridge, 2 short mesobranchial ridges; front with 6 lobes; 5 antero-lateral teeth, fourth the smallest. Basal antennal joint with a raised crest bearing 7 elevated rounded tubercles. Upper surface of cheliped palm with 1 spine on anterior and 2 on posterior borders, respectively; inner face with a central longitudinal carina bordered by granules. Posterior border of propodus of swimming leg with 10-12 fine spines. Male first pleopod curved to rounded, tapering to pointed tip; inner surface without terminal bristles; outer surface with about 21 terminal bristles. (Türkay 1995)
Type locality: Mers d'Asie.
Range: Red Sea (Nobili, 1906); India; Andaman Islands (Alcock, 1899a); Japan - Iriomote-jima (Minei, 1971), Tanegashima, Amami-Oshima, Yoron-jima, and Ishigaki-jima (Sakai, 1976a), Kakeroma-jima near Amami-Oshima (Takeda, 1989), Ginowan, Okinawa (Shokita et al., 2000); Taiwan - Lan-Yü (Muraoka, 1998); Hong Kong (Alcock, 1899a); Singapore (Alcock, 1899a); Philippines - Zamboanga (Miers, 1886); Indonesia - Ambon, Flores; New Guinea; Australia - (Alcock, 1899a), Western Australia (Montgomery, 1931), York I., Murray I., Badu I., C. York, Cape Grenville, high I., Endeavour River, Low Isles, Palm I., Gould I., Green I., Holbourne I., Hope I., C. Upstart, Hamilton I., Lindeman I., Lupton Reef, Cannonvale, Bargara, Port Curtis, Capricorn Group, Pt. Cartwright, Moreton Bay, Trial Bay, Yamba, Broome and Darwin (Stephenson & Hudson, 1957); Samoa; Tongatabu (Miers, 1886).