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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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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 the crab's chelae (claws) fold up and cover its face, as if it were hiding its face in shame.[2]
- ^ "Calappa Weber, 1795". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
- ^ "The Japanese Shame-Faced Crab". Creature Feature. Western Australian Museum. Retrieved 5 July 2020.