(Takeda & Miyake, 1972)

Carapace approximately as wide as long, strongly and regularly convex, its surface smooth, only with shallow cervical and branchial depressions; antero-lateral borders armed with two similar teeth. Rostrum tridentate, median rostral tooth tuberculiform, shorter than lateral teeth. Chelipeds not very robust, whole inner surface of merus shallowly excavated; palm tuberculated on upper and outer surfaces. Second and third pereiopods stout, all joints with tubercles in low number. Distolateral corners of third to fifth abdominal segments angular. (Türkay 1995)

Type locality: Tsushima Strait, Japan, 33°55.5'N, 129°28.2'E, 70 m.
Range: Japan - Tsushima Strait (Takeda & Miyake, 1972a, Takeda, 1973c)

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Crustacea
Order Decapoda
Suborder Pleocyemata
Infraorder Podotremata
Superfamily Dromioidea
Family Dromiidae
Genus Stimdromia
Species Stimdromia kosugei

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Not included in WoRMS database

Scientific synonyms and common names

Petalomera kosugei Takeda & Miyake, 1972a: 254, fig. 1A-F. -- Takeda, 1973c: 21. -- Sakai, 1976a: 23.
Stimdromia kosugei McLay, 1993: 168(key).

Kosuge-kamuri [Japanese]
kamuri, Kosuge- [Japanese]

McLay, C.L., 1993. Crustacea Decapoda: The Sponge Crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. In: A. Crosnier (ed.), Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 10. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 156: 111-251, figs 1-19, tabl. 1-8.

Sakai, T., 1976a. Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas. (In 3 volumes: (1) English text: i-xxix, 1-773, figs 1-379, (2) Plates volume: 1-16, pls 1-251, (3) Japanese text: 1-461, figs 1-2, 3 maps.) Kodansha Ltd, Tokyo.

Takeda, M. & S. Miyake, 1972a. New Crabs from the sea around the Tsushima Islands. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, 15(2): 253-265, figs 1-5.

Takeda, M., 1973c. Report on the Crabs from the Sea around the Tsushima Islands Collected by the Research Vessel Genkai for the Trustees of the National Science Museum, Tokyo. Bulletin of the Liberal Arts & Science Course, Nihon University School of Medicine, 1: 17-68, figs 1-5, tabls 1-3.

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