Biology:Calappa (crab)
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Short description: Genus of crabs
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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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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
There are 43 extant species in the genus:[3]
- Calappa granulata Lai, Chan & Ng, 2006
- Ng, Lai & Aungtonya, 2002 (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Calappa guerini De Brito Capello, 1871
- Calappa hepatica Calappa calappa
- (Linnaeus, 1758) Calappa japonica
- Ortmann, 1892 Calappa karenae
- (Linnaeus, 1758) Ng & Lai, 2012
- Calappa liaoi Ng, 2002
- Calappa lophos Calappa capellonis
- (Herbst, 1782) Calappa monilicanthus
- Latreille, 1812 Calappa africana
- Laurie, 1906 Galil, 1997
- Calappa ocellata Holthuis, 1958
- Calappa ocularia Calappa cinerea
- Holthuis, 1958 Calappa pelii
- Herklots, 1851 Calappa philargius
- Holthuis, 1958 (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Calappa pokipoki Ng, 2000
- Calappa pustulosa Calappa clypeata
- Alcock, 1896 Calappa quadrimaculata
- Takeda & Shikatani, 1990 Calappa acutispina
- Lai & Ng, 2006 Borradaile, 1903
- Jarocki, 1825 Calappa rubroguttata
- Herklots, 1851 Calappa conifera
- Galil, 1997 Calappa springeri
- Rathbun, 1931 Galil, 1997
- Rathbun, 1898 Calappa tortugae
- Rathbun, 1933 Calappa convexa
- Galil, 1997 Calappa tuberculata
- Calappa bicornis Saussure, 1853
- Pastore, 1995 Calappa undulata
- Dai & Yang, 1991 Calappa dumortieri
- Alcock, 1896 Calappa yamasitae
- Sakai, 1980 Guinot, 1962
- Calappa exanthematosa Miers, 1884
- Alcock & Anderson, 1894 Calappa flammea
- (Herbst, 1794) Calappa galloides
- Calappa bilineata Stimpson, 1859
- Calappa woodmasoni Calappa tuerkayana
- (Fabricius, 1793) Calappa gallus
- Calappa torulosa Calappa sulcata
- Calappa sebastieni (Herbst, 1803)
- Calappa rosea Calappa nitida
Calappa flammea
Calappa granulata
Calappa lophos
Calappa philargius
Calappa sulcata
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Extinct species
A further 18 species are known only from fossils.[4][5]
- Calappa sahelensis Hu and Tao 1985
- Calappa costaricana Rathbun 1918
- Calappa earlei Withers 1924
- Calappa heberti Brocchi 1883
- Rathbun 1926 Van Straelen 1933
- Van Straelen 1938 Hu and Tao 1996
- Lorenthey 1929 Milne-Edwards 1873
- Van Straelen 1936 Morris and Collins 1991
- Calappa zinsmeisteri Calappa pavimenta
- Calappa protopustulosa Calappa robertsi
- Calappa sangiranensis Feldmann and Wilson 1988
- Calappa lanensis Calappa laraensis
- Calappa madoerensis Calappa oboui
- Schweitzer et al. 2006 Noetling 1901
- Ross 1964 Van Straelen 1938
- Bouvier 1899 Calappa zurcheri
- Calappa chungii Calappa praelata
- Calappa restricta Calappa sexapinosa
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
- ↑ "Calappa Weber, 1795". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=98341. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
- ↑ "The Japanese Shame-Faced Crab". Creature Feature. Western Australian Museum. http://museum.wa.gov.au/explore/blogs/museummarine/creature-feature-japanese-shame-faced-crab. 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". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061453/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf.
- ↑ Sammy De Grave et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf.
- ↑ Fossilworks
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q3650064 entry
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