(Sakai, 1961)

Maximum carapace length about 34 mm. Surface of carapace armed with prominent spines of symmetrical arrangement, no spinules besides these; pseudorostral spine with an accessory spinule; rostral spine about half as long as pseudorostral spines. Chelipeds of male shorter than the following ambulatory legs. Merus of second to fourth pereiopods armed with large spines on anterior and posterior borders. Proximoventral corner of propodus of fifth pereiopods not produced, whole ventral border provided with spines. (Türkay 1995)

Type locality: Tosa Bay, Japan.
Range: Japan - Tosa Bay (Sakai, 1961, 1976a), Sagami Bay, Kii Nagashima, and Kii Minabe (Sakai, 1976a), Taichi, Kii Peninsula (Miyake, 1983), Wagu and Kii Nagashima (Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995); 15-50 m.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Crustacea
Order Decapoda
Suborder Pleocyemata
Infraorder Podotremata
Superfamily Homoloidea
Family Homolidae
Genus Moloha
Species Moloha acutispina

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Not included in WoRMS database

Scientific synonyms and common names

Homola (Moloha) acutispina Sakai, 1961: 147, fig. 4a, pl. 4, fig. 4.
Paromola acutispina Serène & Lohavanijaya, 1973: 27(key), fig. 25. -- Sakai, 1976a: 42, pl. 13. -- Miyake, 1983: 13, pl. 5, fig. 3. -- Wada, 1995: 382, pl. 101, fig. 5.
Moloha acutispina Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995: 387, figs 28A-B, 29c-d, 30A, 32A, 51l. -- Muraoka, 1998: 15.

Tunonaga-ohhomora [Japanese]
ohhomora, Tunonaga- [Japanese]

Guinot, D. & B. Richer de Forges, 1995. Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura: Révision de la famille des Homolidae Alcock, 1900. In: A. Crosnier (ed.), Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM. 13. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 163: 283-514, figs 1-77, 1 pl. (in French)

Miyake, S., 1983. Japanese Crustacean Decapods and Stomatopods in color. Vol. II. Brachyura (Crabs), i-viii, 1-277, pls 1-64. Hoikusha, Osaka. (In Japanese; second edition in 1992)

Muraoka, K., 1998. Catalogue of the Brachyuran and Anomuran Crabs donated by Prof. Dr. Tune Sakai to the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum. Catalogue of the Collection in the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, 11: 5-67, pls 1-16.

Sakai, T., 1961. New species of Japanese crabs from the collection of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan. Crustaceana, 3(2): 131-150, figs 1-4, pls 3-4.

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.

Serène, R. & P. Lohavanijaya, 1973. The Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) collected by the Naga Expedition, including a review of the Homolidae. In: Scientific Results of Marine Investigations of the South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand 1959-1961. Naga Rep., 4(4): 1-187, figs 1-186, pls 1-21, 1 map.

Wada, K., 1995. Brachyura. In: S. Nishimura, Guide to seashore animals of Japan with color pictures and keys. Vol. 2: 379-418, pls 101-118. (In Japanese)

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