Calappa (crab)
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 Shame-faced crab, Calappa sp.
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39 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 their chela (claws) fold in in front of their face, as if hiding it in shame. There are thirty nine generally recognised species in the genus. Taxonomic sources disagree on the number of species, with some sources classifying several species from the genus Cancer as Calappa.
[edit] Species
- Calappa acutispina (Lai, Chan and Ng, 2006)
- Calappa bicornis (Miers, 1884 )
- Calappa bilineata (Ng, Lai and Aungtonya, 2002)
- Calappa calappa (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Calappa capellonis (Laurie, 1906)
- Calappa cinerea (Holthuis, 1958)
- Calappa clypeata (Borradaile, 1903)
- Calappa conifera (Galil, 1997)
- Calappa convexa (De Saussure, 1853)
- Calappa depressa (Miers, 1886)
- Calappa dumortieri (Guinot 1962)
- Calappa flammea (Herbst, 1794)
- Calappa galloides (Stimpson, 1859)
- Calappa gallus (Herbst, 1803)
- Calappa granulata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Calappa guerini (Brito Capello, 1871)
- Calappa hepatica (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Calappa japonica (Ortmann, 1892)
- Calappa liaoi (Ng, 2002)
- Calappa lophos (Herbst, 1782)
- Calappa monilicanthus (Galil, 1997)
- Calappa nitida (Holthuis, 1958)
- Calappa ocellata (Holthuis, 1958)
- Calappa ocularia (Ng, 2002)
- 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 tuerkayana (Pastore, 1995)
- Calappa undulata (Dai and Yang, 1991)
- Calappa yamasitae (Sakai, 1980)
