Abstract / Introduction / Summary:
A xanthid crab, Soliella melanospinis (Rathbun, 1911), is reported based on a male specimen collected from the south coast of Kyushu, southern Japan. A brief description of the specimen is provided. This paper also pointed out that this species had already been recorded from Wakayama Prefecture and Okinawa Island as Phymodius granulosus (De Man, 1887) in some Japanese literature.
