Audouin, 1826
Carapace covered by small, evenly scattered granules; front deflexed, slightly constricted between bases of ocular peduncles, with smooth margins, clearly bilobed distally, median furrow deep; lateral margins posteriorly subparallel, 2 large and 1 small antero-lateral teeth. Ocular peduncles stout, only slightly longer than breadth of front, cornea extending to base of external orbital angle. Central region of epistome straight. Merus of third maxilliped subequal to ischium. Palm of male cheliped inflated, outer face smooth to naked eye, with longitudinal, feebly granular, ridge on lower third, inner face densely hairy, with scattered granules beneath the hair; immovable finger slightly deflexed, cutting edge without a larger tooth, granulate from base to beginning of spooned tip; cutting edge of dactylus with a large quadrangular tooth in distal third, distally denticulate. Upper margins of meri of ambulatory legs with long hair. (Türkay 1995)
Type locality: Red Sea.
Range: Red Sea (Barnes, 1970); Somalia - Sar Uanle, Bajuni Archipelago, Bender Mtoni, Durbo and Gesira (Vannini & Valmori, 1981); Kenya - Mombasa (Barnes, 1970); Zanzibar (Lenz, 1905); Dar es Salaam (Barnes, 1970, Hartnoll, 1975); Mozambique - Delagoa Bay (Barnard, 1950), Inhaca (Barnes, 1970); South Africa - Natal (Krauss, 1843), Durban Bay (Stebbing, 1910), East London and Port Alfred (Barnard, 1950); Madagascar - Nosy Bé (Lenz & Richters, 1881), Nosy Bé, Tuléar, Ile Europa, Fort-Dauphin and Diégo-Suarez (Crosnier, 1965); Thailand - Phuket (Komai et al., 1995); Japan - Okinawa (Stimpson, 1907), Kii Peninsula (Sakai, 1955a), Miura Peninsula, Yoron-jima and Okinawa (Sakai, 1976a), Kuroshima, Yaeyama-retto (Miyake, 1983); China - Paracel Island (Chen, 1980), Guanxi and Guangdong including Hainan Island and Paracel Islands (Dai & Yang, 1991); Taiwan - Lan-Yü (Sakai, 1939, Lin, 1949), Fon-Kwei, Wan-Ann, and Chi-Bey, P'eng-hu County (Huang et al., 1992); Malaysia; Philippines - Balayan Bay (Serène & Vadon, 1981); Indonesia - Noordwachter Island and Edam Island (de Man, 1888d), Donggala, Kepulauan Talaud, Lucipara Island, Ambon, and Kur Island (Tesch, 1918a); New Guinea - Daru Island (Barnes, 1967); Solomon Islands - Guadalcanal and Vanikoro, Santa Cruz Islands (Barnes, 1967); Australia - from Cooktown to Port Curtis, Queensland (Barnes, 1967), Monte Bello Island, Low Isles and Three Isles (Barnes, 1970); New Caledonia - Nouméa and Oubatche (Barnes, 1967), Nouméa, Nepoui, Ile des Pins, and Moneo (Takeda & Nunomura, 1976); Fiji (Dana, 1852, Miers, 1886, Barnes, 1970); tidal zone.