About Tumidodromia dormia (Linnaeus, 1763)
Tumidodromia dormia is the largest species in the family Dromiidae. Males of this species reach up to 200 millimeters (7.9 inches) across the carapace, while females reach up to 172 millimeters (6.8 inches) across the carapace. Tumidodromia dormia has a widespread distribution across the Indo-Pacific region. Its range extends from East Africa, including Madagascar, the Seychelles and Mauritius, and the Red Sea, through the Malay Archipelago, south to Queensland, Australia, north to China and Japan, and as far east as Hawaii and French Polynesia. It occurs mostly in shallow waters, and the deepest recorded depth for the species is 112 meters (367 feet). Little reproductive data is available for Tumidodromia dormia. One ovigerous (egg-carrying) female collected from the Marquesas Islands carried approximately 130,000 eggs, each of which measured 0.5 millimeters in diameter.
