Calappa (crab)
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| Calappa | |
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| Calappa japonica, dorsal view | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Calappidae |
| Genus: | Calappa Weber, 1795 [1] |
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41 extant species: see text |
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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 their chelae (claws) fold in in front of their face, as if hiding it in shame.
[edit] Species
There are 41 extant species in the genus:[2]
- 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 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 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
A further 18 species are known only from fossils.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ "Calappa Weber, 1795". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=98341. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
- ^ 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". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf.
- ^ Sammy De Grave, N. Dean Pentcheff, Shane T. Ahyong et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl. 21: 1–109. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf.
[edit] External links
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