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Carapace triangular, granulate with rounded, strawberry-like knobs, with 2 depressed areas on either side of cardiac region and with narrow, blunt, projections on lateral margins. Rostrum with a rounded crest terminating in 2 blunt horns and a large spine between eyes ventrally. Eyestalk short and spinulose: cornea slightly dilated. Acicle of antenna with 3 smooth spatulate processes. Chelipeds and walking legs subequal in length and covered with numerous long, flattened, granular, papillate projections, as well as smaller vermiform protuberances and tufts of setae on the hands. Dactyls of walking legs short with stout movable spines ventrally and curved claws.

Size

Carapace: male 90 x 90 mm, female 50 x 60 mm.

Colour

Carapace muddy or greenish brown with dark red ridges and depressions and patches of white and yellow (posteriorly orange) and granules turquoise. Chelipeds dark brown with turquoise granules and papillae; hand reddish brown; fingers yellow distally; teeth white and tips dark; ventrally colours lighter and tinged with pink. Walking legs light brown with dark brown papillae; distal half of propodus white; dactyl with dark grey papillae on dark red and with pale orange band distally; claw dark red. Eyestalk blue-grey; cornea orange. Antennal flagellum orange. Abdomen light and dark red, dark brown, and white.