Calappa Weber, 1795

Galil, Bella, 2001, The Calappidae of the Marquesas Islands with a description of a new species of Mursia (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura), Zoosystema 23 (3), pp. 499-505 : 500

Genus Calappa Weber, 1795 Calappa calappa (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cancer calappa Linnaeus, 1758: 630 .

Calappa calappa – Galil 1997: 279, figs 1b; 3; 4b; 29.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Ua Huka I. Stn 24, 8°53.60’S, 139°37.00’W, 9-15 m, X.1997, 8 juv. ( MNHN). — Stn 25, 8°55.70’S, 139°36.70’W, 6-15 m, X.1997, 1 juv. ( MNHN). — Stn 29, 8°55.70’S, 139°32.00’W, 7-11 m, X.1997, 1 juv. ( MNHN). — Stn 34, 8°56.80’S, 139°35.70’W, 10-15 m, X.1997, 2 juv. ( MNHN). — Stn CP 1295, 8°54.2’S, 139°37.5’W, 50-54 m, 8.IX.1997, 1 cl 39.2 mm ( MNHN).

Eiao I. Stn DW 1155, 7°58.9’S, 140°43.3’W, 80 m, 23.VIII.1997, 1 cl 76.5 mm ( MNHN B27575).

Nuku Hiva I. Stn CP 1188, 8°48.6’S, 140°03.4’W, 35-55 m, 26.VIII.1997, 1 cl 40.5 mm ( MNHN).

DISTRIBUTION. — East Africa to Japan, Hawaii, Tuamotu Archipelago and Marquesas Islands, intertidal to 80 m ( Galil 1997: 281, fig. 29).