Calappa Weber 1795 (box crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae

Synonym: Aparnocondylus Ross et al. 1964

Parent taxon: Calappidae according to C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann 2019

See also Feldmann et al. 2003, Feldmann et al. 2019, Feldmann and Wilson 1988, Garassino et al. 2004, Karasawa 1993, Luque et al. 2017, Morris and Collins 1991, Müller 1984, Rathbun 1918, Rathbun 1926, Rathbun 1930, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Schweitzer et al. 2006, Sepkoski 2002 and Tiwari et al. 1997

Sister taxa: Acanthocarpus, Bittnerilia, Calappella, Calappilia, Calappinae, Carinocalappa, Corallomursia, Corallomursinae, Cryptosoma, Cycloes, Lambrus, Matutinae, Mursia, Mursilata, Mursilia, Mursiopsis, Nantocyclois, Necrocarcininae, Paracorallomursia, Paracyclois, Pseudocorallomursia, Pseudomicippella, Stenodromia, Tavernolesia, Tutus

Subtaxa: 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 Calappa zurcheri

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Type: Cancer granulatus

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Jamaica (2 collections), Mexico (1), Panama (1), the Philippines (1), United States (3: Florida, South Carolina)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (1), Italy (1)

• Pliocene of Italy (5), Jamaica (1), the Netherlands Antilles (1), Panama (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (3), Venezuela (1)

• Miocene of Anguilla (1), Austria (1), Brunei Darussalam (2), the Dominican Republic (12), Hungary (10), India (2), Japan (1), Malaysia (4), Malta (2), Mexico (2), Panama (5), Puerto Rico (1), United States (8: Florida, Puerto Rico), Venezuela (3)

• Neogene of Poland (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene of Hungary (1), Mexico (2), Oman (1), United States (2: Mississippi, Oregon)

• Eocene of Antarctica (1), United States (1: Louisiana)

• Paleogene of Mexico (1)

Total: 88 collections including 92 occurrences

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