(Haswell, 1882)
The ambulatory legs are squat with the anterior margin of the merus clearly cristiform. The first pleopod of the male has been figured by Guinot (1967, fig. 40). (Serène, 1984)
Type locality: Port Denison, Australia.
Range: Red Sea; South Africa - Durban and Algoa Bay (Barnard, 1950); Mauritius (Michel, 1964); Persian Gulf; Gulf of Oman - Jask (Stephensen, 1945); India - Bombay and Okha (Chhapgar, 1957); Gulf of Martaban; Mergui Archipelago; Japan - Tokyo Bay (Parisi, 1916), Shimoda (Sakai, 1935), Shimoda and Wakayama (Sakai, 1939), Sagami Bay (Sakai, 1965b), Sagami Bay, Shimoda, Kii Nagashima, and Kii Minabe (Sakai, 1976a), Amakusa (Yamaguchi et al., 1976), Yamagata Prefecture (Suzuki S., 1979), Gobo (Miyake, 1983), Oshoro, Hokkaido (Komai et al., 1992), Shimoda and Tosa Bay (Muraoka, 1998), off Matsuyama, Seto Inland Sea (Takeda et al., 2000), Amami-shoto; Korea - Inch'on (Sakai, 1939), Yeosu and Deogjeog Island (Kamita, 1941); Hong Kong; Philippines - Quezon, Palawan (Serène & Umali, 1972), north of Lubang Island (Serène & Vadon, 1981); Australia - Port Denison (Haswell, 1882c), Port Molle and Port Curtis (Miers, 1884a), Lindeman Island (Serène & Umali, 1972); low tidal marks.