[1] It is found in the southern Indian and southern Pacific Oceans, including South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Chile.

[2] A sturdy square bodied crab with a smooth dark red-brown carapace and yellow longitudinal ridges on the legs, yellow knobs on the pincers.

There may be four white spots on the carapace in a roughly semicircular pattern.

[3] Southern Africa: Luderitz to Sodwana Bay, Subtidal to at least 100m.

[3] With Haliotis midae it makes up the favoured diet of Octopus vulgaris in False Bay, South Africa.