Size:  around 7 cm to 12 cm

 

Key Features: Carapace cream coloured, mottled with red patches. Ventral surface pale yellow or whitish. Chelipeds and ambulatory legs mottled red. This species usually has a characteristic yellowish cross on the gastric region of the carapace.

 

Habitat: It inhabits on sandy to muddy substratum at depths of 10-30 meters. Young specimens have been collected from and observed on the bell of large Scyphozoa (jellyfish) in Singapore waters.

 

Conservation status: Not Evaluated

 

Distribution in the GoK: reported along the coast of Chank, Noru, Panero, Okha, Shan-ni-ani and Chusana region.

 

 

 

 

 

References:

Desmond P.C. Wee and Peter K.L. Ng (1995) Swimming Crabs of the Genera Charybdis De Haan, 1833, and Thalamita Latreille, 1829 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae) from Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore.

 

Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) Project, Second Interim Progress Report, GEER Foundation, June 2012