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Calappa hepatica

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research P. P. B. 8030, Haifa 31080 (Israel) galil @ post. tau. ac. il ..

Description

Calappa hepatica (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cancer hepaticus Linnaeus, 1758: 630.

Calappa hepatica – Boone 1934: 32, pls 8-10; 1938: 212. — Poupin 1996a: 25.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Eiao I. Stn CP 1160, 7°57.8’S, 140°02.0’W, 49-55 m, 23.VIII.1997, 1 cl 29.9 mm, 1 ovigerous cl 37.2 mm (MNHN B27584).

Hiva Oa I. Stn DW 1203, 9°52.7’S, 139°02.2’W, 60- 61 m, 28.VIII.1997, 1 juv. (MNHN B27585). — Stn DW 1212, 9°49.9’S, 139°02.2’W, 50-80 m, 29.VIII.1997, 1 cl 36.3 mm, 1 juv. (MNHN B27586). — Stn DW 1213, 9°50.3’S, 140°03.2’W, 18-20 m, 29.VIII.1997, 1 cl 28.2 mm (MNHN B27587). — Stn DW 1214, 9°49.8’S, 140°03.1’W, 25-40 m, 29.VIII.1997, 1 cl 37.7 mm, 2 juv. (MNHN B27588). — Stn DW 1215, 9°49.5’S, 140°02.2’W, 49-62 m, 29.VIII.1997, 1 cl 25.4 mm (MNHN B27589). — Stn DW 1227, 9°44.2’S, 138°52.5’W, 84-85 m, 30.VIII.1997, 1 cl 31.4 mm (MNHN B27590).

Nuku Hiva I. Stn DW 1161, 8°55.6’S, 140°06.1’W, 30-37 m, 24.VIII.1997, 1 juv. (MNHN B27591). — Stn CP 1179, 8°46.7’S, 140°13.4’W, 58-62 m, 25.VIII.1997, 1 cl 37.7 mm, 1 ovigerous cl 33.2 mm, 1 juv. (MNHN B27592). — Stn CP 1185, 8°48.9’S, 140°03.4’W, 31-33 m, 26.VIII.1997, 1 juv. (MNHN B27593). — Stn CP 1187, 8°49.2’S, 140°03.5’W, 25-30 m, 26.VIII.1997, 1 cl 34.9 mm (MNHN B27594).

Ua Huka I. Stn 24bis, 8°53.60’S, 139°37.00’W, 20- 34 m, X.1997, 4 juv. (MNHN B27595). — Stn 34, 8°56.80’S, 139°35.70’W, 10-15 m, X.1997, 1 24.9 mm, 1 cl 23.5 mm, 8 juv. (MNHN B27596). — Stn CP 1297, 8°54.2’S, 139°37.4’W, 90-150 m, 8.IX.1997, 1 cl 30.8 mm (MNHN B27597).

DISTRIBUTION. — Red Sea and East Africa to Japan, Hawaii, Marquesas Islands and Clipperton Island, intertidal to 150 m (Galil 1997: 300, fig. 31).

Notes

Published as part of Galil, Bella, 2001, The Calappidae of the Marquesas Islands with a description of a new species of Mursia (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura), pp. 499-505 in Zoosystema 23 (3) on pages 500-501, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5393035

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Calappidae
Genus
Calappa
Species
hepatica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Calappa hepatica (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Galil, 2001

References

  • BOONE L. 1934. - Scientific Results of the World Cruise of the Yacht Alva, 1931, William K. Vanderbilt, Commanding. Crustacea: Stomatopoda and Brachyura. Bulletin of the Vanderbilt Marine Museum 5: 1 - 210, pls 1 - 109.
  • POUPIN J. 1996 a. - Crustacea Decapoda of French Polynesia (Astacidea, Palinuridea, Anomura, Brachyura). Atoll Research Bulletin 442: 1 - 114.
  • GALIL B. S. & CLARK P. F. 1996. - A revision of Cryptosoma Brulle, 1837 and Cycloes de Haan, 1837 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Calappidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 117: 175 - 204.
  • 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. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle 176: 271 - 335.