Carapace compressed, with dorsal strong carina; a transverse furrow from antennal spine, about one-third as long as carapace, continuing posteriorly as an upward-curved faint furrow to angular portion of posterior margin of carapace; anterolateral angle acute and dilated laterally; a spine at posterolateral angle. Rostrum about as long as carapace, curving gently upward; about ten equidistant spines on upper margin anterior to base of eye, and six to eight spines on lower margin; basal one-third of rostrum wide and ornamented with a longitudinal furrow at each side which is delimited by a sharp lateral carina and extended posteriorly just to median part of carapace. Chelate first two pairs and other pereiopods folded beneath thoracic sternite. Posterior dorsal ends of third to fifth abdominal segments produced each to be a sharp spine.
Distribution:
Previously known from the Gulf of Mexico and the West Indies in the West Atlantic, and the Indo-West Pacific from the Arabian Sea to Japan and Hawaii, 100-2,400 m deep.
Remarks:
Readily distinguished from the close congeners, O. spinosus (Brullé) by the presence of a spine at posterolateral angle of carapace, O. novaezeelandiae de Man by having the serrulated scaphocerite and O. spinicauda A. Milne Edwards by the absence of a spine on second abdominal segment.