Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae
Alternative combination: Cancer flammeus
Synonym: Calappa marmorata Fabricius 1837
Full reference: J. F. W. Herbst. 1794. Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer systematischen Beschreibung ihrer verschiedenen Arten, Zweiter Band, Heft 5 147-162
Belongs to Calappa according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Herbst 1794, Holmes 1860, Luque et al. 2017, Rathbun 1918, Rathbun 1919, Rathbun 1930 and Rathbun 1935
Sister taxa: Calappa chungii, Calappa costaricana, Calappa depressa, Calappa earlei, Calappa gallus, Calappa granulata, Calappa granulatus, Calappa heberti, Calappa hepatica, Calappa japonica, Calappa lanensis, Calappa laraensis, Calappa lienharti, Calappa lophos, Calappa madoerensis, Calappa matzkei, Calappa nitida, Calappa oboui, Calappa ocalanus, Calappa pavimenta, Calappa philargius, Calappa praelata, Calappa protopustulosa, Calappa pustulosa, Calappa restricta, Calappa robertsi, Calappa sahelensis, Calappa sangiranensis, Calappa sexaspinosa, Calappa springeri, Calappa zinsmeisteri, Calappa zurcheri
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Panama (1 collection), United States (3: Florida, South Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (12), Panama (5), United States (7: Florida)
• Oligocene of Mexico (1)
• Paleogene of Mexico (1)
Total: 32 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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