(Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
Carapace granulate near antero-lateral borders, even in adult individuals with antero-lateral crest still distinct; distance of epibranchial tooth to exorbital about 1/2 orbita breadth. Horny endpiece of male first pleopod straight terminally, lower face of plate visible. Operculum of female genital duct not very much protruded, vulval slit visible in ventral view. (Türkay 1995)
Type locality: Loyalty Islands.
Range: Mauritius; Cocos Islands; Japan - Northern and Southern Daito-jima and Ishigaki-jima (Sakai, 1976a), Ishigaki-jima (Miyake, 1983); Taiwan; Papua New Guinea - north New Ireland, Admiralty Islands and Pinipel Island (Sendler, 1923); Solomon Islands - Santa Cruz (Takeda & Nunomura, 1976); Loyalty Islands; Hawaiian Islands - Oahu (Rathbun, 1906); Line Islands - Palmyra and Tabuaeran (Edmondson, 1923).