Distribution. Recorded from Indonesia, Australia, Japan, and now Taiwan, at depths of 390 - 1430 m (Macpherson 1993; Watabe and Ikeda 1994; Chan 1997; Poore 2004; Zarenkov 2006).
Sumber: On the clawed lobsters of the genus Nephropsis Wood-Mason, 1872 recently collected from deep-sea cruises off Taiwan and the South China Sea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Nephropidae)