Species Calappa hepatica (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancer hepatica Linnaeus, C. 1758. Cancer. pp. 625-634 in Linnaeus, C. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [630].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZIUU No.448, 'Indes'.

  Type locality references:

  Tyndale-Biscoe, M. & George, R.W. 1962. The Oxystomata and Gymnopleura (Crustacea, Brachyura) of Western Australia with descriptions of two species from Western Australia and one from India. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 45(3): 65-96 figs 1-9 pls 1-3.
• Cancer tuberculatus Herbst, J.F.W. 1785. Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer Systematischen Beischreibung ihrer Verschieden Arten. Berlin & Stralsund Vol. 1 Pt 6 pp. 183–206 pls 10–13. [published from 1782–1804] [204 pl. 13 fig. 78].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB Herbst 0781 ♂, India.
• Calappa spinosissima Milne Edwards, H. 1837. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Paris : Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret Vol. 2 532 pp., Atlas 32 pp., 42 pls. [106].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, locality unknown.
• Calappe sandwichien Eydoux, F. & Souleyet, L.F.A. 1842. Crustacés. pp. 219-272 in Eydoux, F. (ed.). Voyage autour du monde exécuté pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette 'la Bonite', commandée par M. Vaillant. Zoologie. Paris : Bertrand Vol. 1(2). [pl. 3 figs 9, 10] [name given in the French vernacular and therefore not a valid Linnaean name].
• Cancer afata Curtiss, A. 1938. A Short Zoology of Tahiti in the Society Islands. New York : Self-published i-xvi, 193 pp. [171].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Galil, B.S. 1997. Crustacea Decapoda: A revision of the Indo-Pacific species of the genus Calappa Weber, 1795 (Calappidae). pp. 271-335 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 18. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 176: 1-570 [296]
• Ng, P.K.L., Eldredge, L.G. & Evenhuis, N.L. 2011. The names of decapod and stomatopod Crustacea from Tahiti, French Polynesia, established by Anthony Curtis in 1938 and 1944. Zootaxa 3099: 43-56 [45 (Table 1), 48]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific Oceans (Red Sea to Hawai'i and Clipperton Island).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Timor Province (2), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, littoral, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sandy, muddy or gravelly substrates, to 100 m depth.

 

General References

Tyndale-Biscoe, M. & George, R.W. 1962. The Oxystomata and Gymnopleura (Crustacea, Brachyura) of Western Australia with descriptions of two species from Western Australia and one from India. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 45(3): 65-96 figs 1-9 pls 1-3 [69]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Jun-2012		04-Jun-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)