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Calappa calappa (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 209498

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Brachyura (Infraorder) > Eubrachyura (Section) > Heterotremata (Subsection) > Calappoidea (Superfamily) > Calappidae (Family) > Calappa (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Calappa Weber, 1795
Synonymised
taxa
  Cancer calappa Linnaeus, 1758
Cancer fornicatus Fabricius, 1781
Sources  basis of record: Guinot, D. (1967). La Faune carcinologique (Crustacea Brachyura) de l'Ocean Indien Occidental et de la Mer Rouge. Catalogue, Remarques bibliographiques et biobliographie. Bull. Inst. Fondamental d'Afrique Noire (IFAN). 237-252. [details]

from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon]

Distribution French Polynesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mayotte Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
RĂ©union Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Seychelles [details]
Tanzania [details]
Wallis and Futuna Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
To ITIS
Image 
Calappa calappa
Calappa calappa
added on 2008-11-07 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209498
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-07-18 10:07:00Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-02-25 15:57:43Z  changed  Davie, Peter
  
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  Citation: Davie, P. (2013). Calappa calappa (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=209498 on 2013-05-25
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