H. Milne Edwards, 1837
Light coloured markings of carapace consisting of a compact spot near the external border of orbit, another one on cervical groove and a third one at frontal end of the H-groove. Terminal horny endpiece of male first pleopod much broader than long. (Türkay 1995)
Type locality: Indo-Pacific; the type locality Brazil by H. Milne Edwards is probably due to error. (Sakai, 1976)
Range: Andaman Islands (Alcock, 1900b); Nicobar Islands (Alcock, 1900b); Sumatra - Pulu Weh (Tesch, 1918a); Japan - Ishigaki-jima (Sakai, 1976a, Miyake, 1983); Taiwan - Tainan (Sakai, 1939, Lin, 1949); China - Paracel Islands (Chen, 1975, Dai & Yang, 1991); Philippines; Indonesia - Lirung, Kepulauan Talaud (Tesch, 1918a), Makassar Strait, Gorontalo, Sulawesi; New Britain (Ortmann, 1894a); Loyalty Islands.