Metaxanthops acutus

Serène, 1984

Carapace rather narrow, evenly convex as a whole, nearly flattened along frontal and antero-lateral margins, nearly smooth, but not shining; areolae distinct, evenly convex, with shallow interregional furrows. Front protruded forward beyond orbit, with two prominent lobes. Antero-lateral margin divergent, with three triangular teeth behind external orbital lobe; last tooth followed by a much smaller tuberculate tooth on its posterior slope. Chelipeds heavy, unequal; carpus bluntly carinated above, with some small compressed tubercles; palm also carinated above, with two compressed tubercles near articulation with carpus; dark colour of immovable finger extended back onto large part of palm. Ambulatory legs slender, sparsely hairy; carpus with a shallow longitudinal furrow on its upper surface. Male first pleopod curved, with long plumose hairs at its subapical part. (Takeda, 1989)

Type locality: Nosy Bé, Madagascar, intertidal zone.
Range: Comoros (Serène, 1984); Madagascar - Nosy Bé (Serène, 1984); Japan - Kakeroma-jima near Amami-Oshima (Takeda, 1989).

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