Calappa (crab)

Calappa
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]
Species

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 their chelae (claws) fold in in front of their face, as if hiding it in shame.

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]

References

  1. ^ "Calappa Weber, 1795". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=98341. Retrieved August 21, 2011. 
  2. ^ 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. 
  3. ^ 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. 

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