Calappa lophos
Authors/Creators
- 1. Centro Oceanográfico de Cádiz (IEO-CSIC), Puerto Pesquero, Muelle de Levante s / n, 11006 Cádiz, Spain.
- 2. Departamento de Biología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Campus de Teatinos s / n, 29071 Málaga, Spain.
- 3. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, 28006, Madrid, Spain.
- 4. Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía (ICMAN-CSIC), República Saharaui, 2, Puerto Real, 11519 Cádiz, Spain.
Description
Calappa lophos (Herbst, 1785)
Fig. 11
Material examined
MAURITIUS • 1 ♂ (102.3 ×64.7); 1850; “Sala del Mar” exhibition; MNCN20.04/00022.
Remarks
The specimen is dry preserved inside a glass and wood case. It was exhibited in the “Sala del Mar”. The description provided about the species is interesting and makes it understandable even to non-taxonomists: “Cangrejo parecido al llamado globito en España, de profundidad, propio de los mares de la Isla de Francia” (crab similar to the one called “globito” in Spain, from the deep sea, typical of the waters around the Island of France [= Mauritius]). The name “globito” refers to C. granulata.
The specimen was previously misidentified as Calappa tuberculata (Fabricius, 1787).
For identification see also Galil (1997).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MNCN
- Material sample ID
- MNCN20.04/00022
- Scientific name authorship
- Herbst
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Calappidae
- Genus
- Calappa
- Species
- lophos
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Calappa lophos (Herbst, 1785) sec. Muñoz, García-Raso, Chillón & Cuesta, 2025
References
- Galil B. S. 1997. Crustacea Decapoda: A revision of the Indo-Pacific species of the genus Calappa Weber, 1795 (Calappidae). In: Crosnier A. (ed.) Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM vol. 18: 271 - 235. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, 176, Paris.