?Calappa
Shame-faced crab, Calappa sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda Infraorder: Brachyura Superfamily: Calappoidea Family: Calappidae Genus: Calappa Weber, 1795
Species
39 species, see text. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ... Phyla Subregnum Parazoa Porifera (sponges) Subregnum Agnotozoa Placozoa (trichoplax) Orthonectida (orthonectids) Rhombozoa (dicyemids) Subregnum Eumetazoa Radiata (unranked) (radial symmetry) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anemones) Bilateria (unranked) (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Orthonectida (parasitic to flatworms, echinoderms, etc. ... Subphyla and Classes Arthropods (phylum Arthropoda) (from Greek ἀρθρον, meaning joint and πούς/ποδός, meaning foot) are the largest phylum of animals and include the insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and others. ... Subclasses Eumalacostraca Hoplocarida Phyllocarida See text for orders. ... Suborders and Infraorders Dendrobranchiata Pleocyemata Caridea Stenopodidea Reptantia, comprising: Eryonoidea Achelata Astacidea Glypheidea Thalassinidea Anomala Brachyura The decapods or Decapoda are a group of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups of crustaceans, such as crabs, lobsters and shrimp, but also some families that are less well known. ... Supfamilies See text Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short tail (Greek: brachy = short, ura = tail), or where the abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax. ... Families Calappoidea is a superfamily of crabs. ... In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ...

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 their chela (claws) fold in in front of their face, as if hiding it in shame. There are thirty nine generally recognised species in the genus. Taxonomic sources disagree on the number of species, with some sources classifying several species from the genus Cancer as Calappa. In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a taxonomic grouping. ... Supfamilies See text Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short tail (Greek: brachy = short, ura = tail), or where the abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax. ... The term carapace refers to a dorsal section of an exoskeleton or shell, in a number of animal groups. ... ASIMO is an anthropomorphic robot created in 2000 by Honda. ... A claw is a curved pointed growth found at the end of a toe or finger, or in arthropods, of the tarsus. ... In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ... Taxonomy (from Greek verb tassein = to classify and nomos = law, science, cf economy) may refer to: the science of classifying living things (see alpha taxonomy) a system of classification in some other field Taxonomy was once only the science of classifying living organisms, but later the word was applied in...

Species

• Calappa acutispina (Lai, Chan and Ng, 2006)
• Calappa bicornis (Miers, 1884 )
• Calappa bilineata (Ng, Lai and Aungtonya, 2002)
• Calappa calappa (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Calappa capellonis (Laurie, 1906)
• Calappa cinerea (Holthuis, 1958)
• Calappa clypeata (Borradaile, 1903)
• Calappa conifera (Galil, 1997)
• Calappa convexa (De Saussure, 1853)
• Calappa depressa (Miers, 1886)
• Calappa dumortieri (Guinot 1962)
• Calappa flammea (Herbst, 1794)
• Calappa galloides (Stimpson, 1859)
• Calappa gallus (Herbst, 1803)
• Calappa granulata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Calappa guerini (Brito Capello, 1871)
• Calappa hepatica (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Calappa japonica (Ortmann, 1892)
• Calappa liaoi (Ng, 2002)
• Calappa lophos (Herbst, 1782)
• Calappa monilicanthus (Galil, 1997)
• Calappa nitida (Holthuis, 1958)
• Calappa ocellata (Holthuis, 1958)
• Calappa ocularia (Ng, 2002)
• Calappa pelii (Herklots, 1851)
• Calappa philargius (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Calappa pokipoki (Ng, 2000)
• Calappa pustulosa (Alcock, 1896)
• Calappa quadrimaculata (Takeda & Shikatani, 1990)
• Calappa rosea (Jarocki, 1825)
• Calappa rubroguttata (Herklots, 1851)
• Calappa sebastieni (Galil, 1997)
• Calappa springeri (Rathbun, 1931)
• Calappa sulcata (Rathbun, 1898)
• Calappa tortugae (Rathbun, 1933)
• Calappa torulosa (Galil, 1997)
• Calappa tuerkayana (Pastore, 1995)
• Calappa undulata (Dai and Yang, 1991)
• Calappa yamasitae (Sakai, 1980)

Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as , (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[1] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. ... Henri Louis Frederic de Saussure (1829 - 1905) was a Swiss mineralogist. ... Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743 - 1807) was a German naturalist and entomologist. ... Alfred William Alcock (1859 - 1933) was a British naturalist. ... Dr. Mary Jane Rathbun (January 11, 1860 — April 4, 1943) was an American marine biologist. ...

References

• Integrated Taxonomic Information Services