Calappa hepatica

Calappa hepatica is a common benthic species of box crab of tropical and subtropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans and the Red Sea.[2]

Calappa hepatica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Brachyura
Family:
Calappidae
Genus:
Calappa
Species:
C. hepatica
Binomial name
Calappa hepatica
Synonyms [1]
  • Cancer hepaticus Linnaeus, 1758
  • Cancer tuberculatus Herbst, 1785
  • Calappa tuberculosa Guérin, 1829
  • Calappa spinosissima H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
  • Calappe sandwichien Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842

References
  1. Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter 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.
  2. WoRMS (2009). "Calappa hepatica (Linnaeus, 1758)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved June 5, 2010.


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