(Latreille, 1803)
Carapace is decidedly broader than long, the dorsal surface moderately convex and uneven but generally naked and glabrous. The gastric region moderately convex and well defined; the oblique striae on either posterior lateral surface are strongly impressed but not furnished with hair. The front is broadly concave in the middle, the postfrontal ridge four-lobed, each lobe rounded. The external orbital angle is prominent and its outer margin arched, the second antero-lateral tooth is small and only shallowly separated from the former; the lateral border behind the second tooth is concave but again divergent near the posterior angle. The two oblique ridges on the dorsal surface of palm are similar to those of the former species; the ridge of upper surface of the movable finger is composed of 8-9 coarse tubercles, close to this row are about 10-12 smaller tubercles. The merus of ambulatory legs is almost twice as long as broad, therefore, it is a little narrower than in Parasesarma pictum. (T. Sakai, 1939: 683)
Type locality: East India.
Range: east coast of Africa; Madagascar - Nosy Bé (Lenz & Richters, 1881), Toliara (Crosnier, 1965); Mauritius; India - both coasts of Peninsula (Alcock, 1900b), Karwar, Kolak and Umarsadi (Chhapgar, 1957); Sri Lanka (Alcock, 1900b); Andaman Islands (Alcock, 1900b); Nicobar Islands (Alcock, 1900b); Sumatra - Aceh; Japan - Tokyo Bay (Ortmann, 1894a), Nagasaki (Sakai, 1939), Tokyo Bay, Sagami Bay and Nagasaki (Sakai, 1976a), Shirakawa, Kumamoto (Miyake, 1983), Okukubi River, Okinawa (Shokita et al., 1998); Korea - Ganghwa Island (Sakai, 1939), Korea Strait (Kamita, 1941), Inch'on and Seondu Ri (Kim, 1973); China - south of Shandong Peninsula (Shen, 1932), Hainan Island (Shen, 1936), Shanghai, Ningbo, Santuao, Tsimei, Xiamen, Pingtan, Fujian Province, and Hainan Island (Shen, 1940b), Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiaozhou Bay (Dai & Yang, 1991); Taiwan - Kaohsiung (Sakai, 1939), Tafuko and Kaohsiung (Lin, 1949); Thailand - Songkhla (Lanchester, 1902); Indonesia - Makassar (Rathbun, 1910b); Admiralty Islands (Sendler, 1923); New Caledonia.