Calappa zurcheri Bouvier 1899 (box crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae

Full reference: E.-L. Bouvier. 1899. Calappa zurcheri, crabe nouveau des terrains Miocénes de Panama. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 5:189-192

Belongs to Calappa according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Bouvier 1899, Luque et al. 2017, Rathbun 1918 and Rathbun 1930

Sister taxa: Calappa chungii, Calappa costaricana, Calappa depressa, Calappa earlei, Calappa flammea, 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

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Mexico (1 collection)

• Oligocene of Mexico (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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