Pauline Walsh Jacobson, USA
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Calappa galloides Stimpson, 1859
Calappa is a genus of crabs known commonly as box crabs or shame-faced crabs. The name box crab comes from their distinctly bulky carapace, and the name shame-faced is from anthropomorphising the way the crab's claws fold up and cover its face, as if it were hiding its face in shame.
Habitat Soft bottom, mud or sand. THis Box crab burrows in sand or slightly muddy sand, and usually in shallow coastal waters; also on rubble and molluscan and other shells.
Synonymised names:
Calappa squamosa Desbonne in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867 (junior synonym)
Calappa is a genus of crabs known commonly as box crabs or shame-faced crabs. The name box crab comes from their distinctly bulky carapace, and the name shame-faced is from anthropomorphising the way the crab's claws fold up and cover its face, as if it were hiding its face in shame.
Habitat Soft bottom, mud or sand. THis Box crab burrows in sand or slightly muddy sand, and usually in shallow coastal waters; also on rubble and molluscan and other shells.
Synonymised names:
Calappa squamosa Desbonne in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867 (junior synonym)
