(Kubo, 1936)

Maximum carapace length about 40 mm. Surface of carapace armed with prominent spines of symmetrical arrangement and numerous additional spinules; pseudorostral spine with an accessory spinule; rostral spine about half as long as pseudorostral spines. Chelipeds of male not much longer than the following ambulatory legs. Merus of second to fourth pereiopods armed with large spines on anterior and posterior borders. Merus of fifth pereiopods smooth to naked eye, only distal spine prominent; proximoventral corner of propodus strongly produced and provided with spines. (Türkay 1995)

Type locality: Kominato, Japan, 311 m.
Range: Japan - Izu Peninsula and Sagami Bay (Sakai, 1936c), Kominato, Sagami Bay, Shima Peninsula, Kii Minabe and Tosa Bay (Sakai, 1976a), Muroto, Sagami Bay and Hayama (Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995); Taiwan; 100-310 m.

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

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Not included in WoRMS database

Scientific synonyms and common names

Latreillopsis major Kubo, 1936b: 63, pl. 17.
Homola (Parhomola) majora Sakai, 1936c: 49, pl. 9, fig. 2.
Homola (Moloha) alcocki (not Stebbing, 1920) Sakai, 1961: 147, fig. 4b.
Paromola alcocki (not Stebbing, 1920) Sakai, 1976a: 41, pl. 12. -- Matsuzawa, 1977: pl. 86, figs 1-2. -- Imanaka et al., 1984: 58.
Moloha majora Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995: 384, figs 31a-b, e, 51h. -- Tan et al., 2000a.
Moloha alcocki Muraoka, 1998: 15.

Non Homola (Parhomola) majora -- Edmondson, 1951: 202, fig. 10a-f.
= Latreillopsis aff. cornuta.

Ibote-ohhomora [Japanese]
ohhomora, Ibote- [Japanese]

Edmondson, C.H., 1951. Some Central Pacific Crustaceans. Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 20(13): 183-243, figs 1-38.

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)

Imanaka, T., Y. Sasada, H. Suzuki, S. Segawa, & T. Masuda, 1984. Crustacean decapod fauna in Kominato and adjacent waters middle Honshu: a provisional list. Journal Tokyo Univ. Fish. 71(1): 45-74, illustr. (Japanese summary).

Kubo, I., 1936b. A new homoloid crab from Japan. J. Imp. Fish. Inst., Tokyo, 31(2): 63-68, pl. 17.

Matsuzawa, K., 1977. Sea shore animals of Muroto, Kochi Prefecture, 13 pp., 126 pls. (In Japanese)

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., 1936c. Studies on the crabs of Japan. I. Dromiacea. Science Reports of the Tokyo Bunrika Daigaku, (B) 3 (Suppl. no. 1): 1-66, figs 1-13, pls 1-9.

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.

Tan, S.H., J.-F. Huang, & P.K.L. Ng, 2000a. The deepwater crabs of the families Homolidae and Latreilliidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Taiwan. In: J.-S. Hwang et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Marine Biology in Taiwan - Crustacea and Zooplankton Taxonomy, Ecology and Living Resources. Taiwan Museum Special Publication Series, No. 10.

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