(Montagu)
Description:
Adult body length up to 50 mm; yellowish white, often orange spotted. Carapace with a strong cervical groove; anterior lateral border with a distinctive ocular spine; well-developed hairy rostrum. Chelipeds equal in size, long and slender; the dactyl up to 1.5 x the length of the thumb; central margin of manus with dense rows of hairs; outer extremity of carpus with a long spine. Abdomen narrower and more rigidly chitinized than in Upogebia deltaura .
Habitat:
In burrows from LWST to shallow sublittoral.
Distribution:
SW Norway to Spain and Mediterranean. Commonest of the three Upogebia species.