Calappa hepatica ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Castro, Peter, 2011, Catalog of the anomuran and brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) of the Hawaiian Islands 2947, Zootaxa 2947 (1), pp. 1-154 : 39

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Calappa hepatica ( Linnaeus, 1758 )
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Calappa hepatica ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Cancer hepaticus Linnaeus, 1758: 630 View Cited Treatment [type locality: Indiis; type material: status and location unknown].

Hawaiian Is. records:

Calappa tuberculata (Herbst, 1785) View in CoL — Owen 1839: 80 [O‘ahu]. — Randall 1840: 129 [“Sandwich Is.”]. — Eydoux & Souleyet 1842: 245 [îles “Sandwich”]. — Dana 1852b: 393 [“Sandwich Is.”].

Calappe sandwichien Eydoux & Souleyet 1842 [vernacular name, unavailable]: pl. 3, figs. 9 [color], 10 [îles “Sandwich;” MNHN-B80, “ Calappa tuburculata var. sandwichien View in CoL ” on label].

Calappa hepatica ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL — Miers 1886: 285 [O‘ahu]. — Schauinsland 1899: 92 [Laysan]. — Lenz 1901: 451 [Laysan, O‘ahu]. — Rathbun 1906: 887 [O‘ahu, Hawai‘i]. — Pesta 1933: 280 [H.I.]. — Edmondson 1923b: 1551, 1552 [H.I., Kure Atoll]; 1925: 30 [Kure Atoll, Laysan, Johnston Atoll]; 1946: 271, fig. 167 [H.I.]. — Boone 1938: 212 [O‘ahu]. — Wiersma & Ripley 1952: 393 [O‘ahu]. — Wiersma & Bush 1963: 13 [O‘ahu]. — Tinker 1965: 72, pl. 24 [H.I.]. — Banner 1968: 25 [O‘ahu]. — Kamemoto & Kato 1969: 232 [O‘ahu]. — Titcomb et al. 1979: 370 [H.I.]. — Galil 1997: 296, figs. 10e–f, 13e–f, 14, 31 [O‘ahu, Hawai‘i]. — Hoover 2006: 268, color photograph [O‘ahu].

Taxonomy. Galil (1997)

Geographical distribution. Across Indo-West Pacific and Tropical Eastern Pacific regions, introduced to the

Mediterranean Sea ( Brockerhoff & McLay 2011).

Habitat. Buries in sand; intertidal, shallow subtidal to 100 m.

Banner, A. H. (1968) A fresh-water kill on the coral reefs of Hawaii. Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology Technical Report, 15, 1 - 29. [mimeograph]

Boone, L. (1938) Crustacea. In: Scientific results of the world cruises of the yachts Ara, 1928 - 1929, and Alva, 1931 - 32, Alva Mediterranean cruise, 1933, and Alva South American cruise, 1935, William K. Vanderbilt commanding, Part V. Bulletin of the Vanderbilt Marine Museum, 7, 195 - 281, pls. 72 - 109.

Brockerhoff, A. & McLay, C. (2011) Human-mediated spread of alien crabs. In: Galil, B. S., Clark, P. F. & Carlton, J. T. (Eds.), In the Wrong Place - Alien Marine Crustaceans: Distribution (Biology and Impacts, Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology, vol. 6). Springer Science + Business Media, Dordrecht, pp. 27 - 106. Brock, V. E., Jones, R. S. & Helfrich, P. (1965) An ecological reconnaissance of Johnston Island and the effects of dredging. HIMB Technical Report, 5, i - iv + 1 - 90. [mimeograph]

Dana, J. D. (1852 b) Crustacea, Part I. United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, Under the Command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N., vol. 13 (2), i - viii, 1 - 685; Atlas (1855), 1 - 27, pls. 1 - 96, C. Sherman, Philadelphia.

Edmondson, C. H. (1923 b) A preliminary comparison between Hawaiian and Australian Crustacea. Proceedings of the Pan-Pacific Science Congress, Australia 1923, 2, 1548 - 1553.

Eydoux, F. & Souleyet, L. F. A. (1842) Crustaces. In: Voyage autour du monde execute pendant les annees 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette La Bonite commandee par M. Vaillant. Arthus Bertrand, Paris, Zoologie, Zoologie, vol. 1 (2), 217 - 272; Atlas, pls. 1 - 150.

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 (Paris), 176, 271 - 335.

Hoover, J. P. (2006) Hawai'i's Sea Creatures. Revised edition. Mutual Publishing, Honolulu, xviii + 366 pp. [first edition 1999]

Kamemoto, F. I. & Kato, K. N. (1969) The osmotic and chloride regulative capacity of five Hawaiian decapod crustaceans. Pacific Science, 23 (2), 232 - 237.

Lenz, H. (1901) Crustaceen. Ergebnisse einer Reise nach dem Pazific (Schauinsland 1896 - 1897). Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abteilung fur Systematik, 14 (5), 429 - 482, pl. 32.

Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum caracteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Ed. 10, vol. 1, L. Salvii, Holmiae [= Stockholm], iv + 824 pp.

Miers, E. J. (1886) Report on the Brachyura collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 76. In: Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger During the Years 1873 - 76 Under the Command of Captain George S. Nares, R. N., F. R. S. and the Late Captain Frank Tourle Thompson, R. N., Zoology, 17 (49), L + 1 - 362 pp., pls. 1 - 29.

Owen, R. (1839) Crustacea. In: The Zoology of Captain Beechey's Voyage; Compiled from the Collections and Notes Made by Captain Beechey, the Officers and Naturalist of the Expedition, During a Voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Straits Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, Under the Command of Captain F. W. Beechey, R. N. F. R. S, & c. & c. in the Years 1825, 26, 27, and 28 … Henry G. Bhon, London, pp. 69 - 90, pls. 24 - 28.

Pesta, O. (1933) Zoogeographische Berichte uber Crustaceen. Zoologisches Anzeiger, 104, 274 - 282.

Randall, J. W. (1840) Catalogue of the Crustacea brought by Thomas Nuttall and J. K. Townsend, from the West Coast of North America and the Sandwich Islands, with descriptions of such species as are apparently new, among which are included several species of different localities, previously existing in the collection of the Academy. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 8 (1) [1839], 106 - 147, pls. 3 - 7.

Rathbun, M. J. (1906) The Brachyura and Macrura of the Hawaiian Islands. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 23 (3) [1903], 827 - 930, pls. 1 - 24.

Schauinsland, H. H. (1899) Drei Monate auf einer Koralleninsel (Laysan). M. Nossler, Bremen, 104 pp.

Tinker, S. W. (1965) Pacific Crustacea. An Illustrated Handbook on the Reef-Dwelling Crustacea of Hawaii and the South Seas. Charles E. Tuttle, Rutland, VT & Tokyo, 134 pp.

Titcomb, M., Fellows, D. B., Pukui, M. K. & Devaney, D. M. (1979) Native use of marine invertebrates in old Hawaii. Pacific Science, 32 (4) [1978], 325 - 391.

Wiersma, C. A. G. & Ripley, S. H. (1952) Innervation patterns of crustacean limbs. Physiologia Comparata et Oecologia, 2 (4), 341 - 405.

Wiersma, C. A. G. & Bush, A. (1963) On the movements of the eyestalks of crabs; particularly of Calappa hepatica (L.). Koninklijk Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Proceedings, ser. C, 66 (1), 13 - 17.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Calappidae

Genus

Calappa