Calappa hepatica

Calappa hepatica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Calappidae
Genus: Calappa
Species:
C. hepatica
Binomial name
Calappa hepatica
Synonyms [1]
  • Cancer afata Curtiss, 1938
  • Cancer hepaticus Linnaeus, 1758
  • Cancer tuberculatus Herbst, 1785
  • Calappa tuberculosa Guérin, 1829
  • Calappa spinosissima H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
  • Calappe sandwichien Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842

Calappa hepatica, the reef box crab,[2] is a common benthic species of box crab of tropical and subtropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans and the Red Sea.[3]

  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 6 June 2011.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Singapore was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ WoRMS (2010). "Calappa hepatica (Linnaeus, 1758)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 3 July 2020.