Sawedged Spooner Crab

Etisus utilis

Size to 15 cm (6 in.). Carapace is shades of brown with two rectangular lobes between eyes and seven large forward curving marginal teeth. Three spines on wrist and three to five on palm. Black pincers.

Indo-West Pacific to New Caledonia, also Japan.
Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassMalacostraca
OrderDecapoda
FamilyXanthidae
GenusEtisus
SpeciesEtisus utilis
Photographed in
Indonesia