On the clawed lobsters of the genus Wood-Mason, 1872 recently collected from deep-sea cruises off Taiwan and the South China Sea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Nephropidae).

Recent deep-sea cruises using Taiwanese research vessels off Taiwan and in the South China Sea yielded seven species of the clawed lobster genus Wood-Mason, 1872. Four species are new records for Taiwan ( Macpherson, 1990, Macpherson, 1993, Macpherson, 1993, and Bate, 1888) and three species are new records of Dongsha (under the jurisdiction of Taiwan) in the South China Sea ( Alcock, 1901, Wood-Mason, 1872, and ). Altogether, five and four species of this genus are now known from Taiwan and Dongsha, respectively. The diagnostic characters and coloration are illustrated for most, if not all, of these species.