Lissocarcinus polybioides

Arzivian, Arteen, Alrubaie, Ahmad, Yang, Jessica, Lin, Huiyu, Zhang, Eva & Leong, Rupert, 2022, Crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Seas of East and Southeast Asia Collected by the RV Hakuhō Maru (KH- 72 - 1 Cruise) 4. South China Sea, Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology 48 (4), pp. 147-191 : 167-168

Lissocarcinus polybioides

Adams and White, 1949

Material examined. RV Hakuhō Maru

KH-72-1 cruise, sta. 45, 1 8 infested by a Sacculina ( CB 10.8×CL 9.3 mm), NSMT-Cr 30922.

Remarks. Fine figures and photographs were provided by Sakai (1934, 1939, 1965, 1976), Stephenson and Campbell (1960), Crosnier (1962), and Apel and Spiridonov (1998). Recently, Takeda et al. (2019: pl. 16 fig. D) figured and listed many specimens from Okinawa-jima Island in the Ryukyu Islands. The carapace dorsal surface is flattened, smooth and glossy, with the protruding front notched medially. The carapace anterolateral margin is divided into five lobes separated each by a small incision.

Distribution. Indo-West Pacific, ranging from Japan southwards to New Caledonia and Australia, and westwards to Madagascar through the Arabian Gulf, 1–205 m depth.