Calappa (crab)
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| Calappa hepatica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Calappidae |
| Genus: | Calappa Weber, 1795 [1] |
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41 extant species: see text | |
Calappa is a genus of crabs known commonly as box crabs or shame-faced crabs. The name box crab comes from their distinctly bulky carapace, and the name shame-faced is from anthropomorphising the way the crab's chelae (claws) fold up and cover its face, as if it were hiding its face in shame.[2]
Species[edit]
There are 43 extant species in the genus:[3]
- Calappa acutispina Lai, Chan & Ng, 2006
- Calappa africana Lai & Ng, 2006
- Calappa bicornis Miers, 1884
- Calappa bilineata Ng, Lai & Aungtonya, 2002
- Calappa calappa (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Calappa capellonis Laurie, 1906
- Calappa cinerea Holthuis, 1958
- Calappa clypeata Borradaile, 1903
- Calappa conifera Galil, 1997
- Calappa convexa Saussure, 1853
- Calappa dumortieri Guinot, 1962
- Calappa exanthematosa Alcock & Anderson, 1894
- Calappa flammea (Herbst, 1794)
- Calappa galloides Stimpson, 1859
- Calappa gallus (Herbst, 1803)
- Calappa granulata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Calappa guerini De Brito Capello, 1871
- Calappa hepatica (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Calappa japonica Ortmann, 1892
- Calappa karenae Ng & Lai, 2012
- Calappa liaoi Ng, 2002
- Calappa lophos (Herbst, 1782)
- Calappa monilicanthus Latreille, 1812
- Calappa nitida Galil, 1997
- Calappa ocellata Holthuis, 1958
- Calappa ocularia Holthuis, 1958
- Calappa pelii Herklots, 1851
- Calappa philargius (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Calappa pokipoki Ng, 2000
- Calappa pustulosa Alcock, 1896
- Calappa quadrimaculata Takeda & Shikatani, 1990
- Calappa rosea Jarocki, 1825
- Calappa rubroguttata Herklots, 1851
- Calappa sebastieni Galil, 1997
- Calappa springeri Rathbun, 1931
- Calappa sulcata Rathbun, 1898
- Calappa tortugae Rathbun, 1933
- Calappa torulosa Galil, 1997
- Calappa tuberculata (Fabricius, 1793)
- Calappa tuerkayana Pastore, 1995
- Calappa undulata Dai & Yang, 1991
- Calappa woodmasoni Alcock, 1896
- Calappa yamasitae Sakai, 1980
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Extinct species[edit]
A further 18 species are known only from fossils.[4][5]
- Calappa chungii Hu and Tao 1985
- Calappa costaricana Rathbun 1918
- Calappa earlei Withers 1924
- Calappa heberti Brocchi 1883
- Calappa lanensis Rathbun 1926
- Calappa laraensis Van Straelen 1933
- Calappa madoerensis Van Straelen 1938
- Calappa oboui Hu and Tao 1996
- Calappa pavimenta Schweitzer et al. 2006
- Calappa praelata Lorenthey 1929
- Calappa protopustulosa Noetling 1901
- Calappa restricta Milne-Edwards 1873
- Calappa robertsi Ross 1964
- Calappa sahelensis Van Straelen 1936
- Calappa sangiranensis Van Straelen 1938
- Calappa sexapinosa Morris and Collins 1991
- Calappa zinsmeisteri Feldmann and Wilson 1988
- Calappa zurcheri Bouvier 1899
Fossils of within this genus can be found in sediment of Europe, United States, Mexico, Central America, Australia and Japan from Paleogene to recent (age range: 33.9 to 0.0 Ma).
References[edit]
- ^ "Calappa Weber, 1795". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
- ^ "The Japanese Shame-Faced Crab". Creature Feature. Western Australian Museum. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- ^ P. K. L. Ng; D. Guinot; P. J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
- ^ Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
- ^ Fossilworks
External links[edit]
Media related to Calappa at Wikimedia Commons
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