Calappa galloides Stimpson, 1859

Coelho, Petrônio Alves, Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De & Bezerra, Luis Ernesto Arruda, 2008, Checklist of the marine and estuarine Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of northern and northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 1956 (1), pp. 1-58 : 10

Calappa galloides Stimpson, 1859

Western Atlantic: Bermuda, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, West Indies, Central America, northern South America to Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul). Central Atlantic: Ascension I. Eastern Atlantic: Canary Islands to Angola [ Manning & Chace 1990; Melo 1996, as C. gallus (Herbst, 1803) ; González et al. 2000].

Occurrence in northern and northeastern Brazil: SNC: Coelho (1969), as C. gallus ; RA: Coelho (1965a), as C. gallus ; FN: Miers (1886), as C. gallus ; MA: Barreto et al. (1993a), as C. gallus ; CE, RN: Fausto Filho (1966), as C. gallus ; PB: Melo & Veloso (2005), as C. gallus ; PE, AL: Coelho & Ramos (1972), as C. gallus ; BA: Rathbun (1898), as C. gallus .