Metasesarma aubryi

(A. Milne Edwards, 1869)

Frontal breadth approximately half greatest breadth of carapace; outer border of external orbital angle slightly divergent backward. Third maxilliped with outer border of merus formed into a subdistal broad lobe; largest breadth of merus across anterior third. No vestigial flagellum on exopodite. (Davie 1997)

Type locality: New Caledonia.
Range: Sumatra - Banda Aceh (de Man, 1895b, 1898); Taiwan - (Dai & Yang, 1991), T'ai-nan (Sakai, 1939, 1976), Nanfangao, Tainan, and Lan-YĆ¼ (Lin, 1949); Gulf of Thailand; Indonesia - Noordwachter Island and Ambon (de Man, 1888d), Patani, Halmahera Island, Sorong and Manokwari (Rathbun, 1910a), Lirung, Kepulauan Talaud, and Pulu Kelang, between Seram and Buru (Tesch, 1918a); Kepulauan Aru (Miers, 1886); Papua New Guinea - Kais (Ortmann, 1894a), Admiralty Islands (Miers, 1886), Bertrand Islands, Saint Matthias Group, north of New Ireland, Nissan Islands, and Buka (Sendler, 1923); Solomon Islands - Gizo and Guadalcanal Island (Takeda & Nunomura, 1976); Vanuatu - Api (Miers, 1886); New Caledonia (A. Milne Edwards, 1869); Rotuma.

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