Calappa pustulosa (Alcock, 1896)

Srivastava, O. P., 2017, Marine and estuarine crabs of Digha coast, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (1), pp. 49-72 : 54

4. Calappa pustulosa (Alcock, 1896) *

(Plate 1, Figure 2)

1896. Calappa pustulosa Alcock, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal ,

65 (2): 147, pl. 6, Figure 1 .

1897. Calappa pustulosa Alcock and Anderson, Illustr.

Zool.” Investigator”, Crust. Part 5: pl. 28, Figure 1 .

2005. Calappa pustulosa : Dev Roy and Bhadra S, Zool.

Surv. India, State Fauna Series 5: Fauna of Andhra

Pradesh (Pt 5): 380.

Material examined: 2exs. Digha Mohana, 16.iv.14, Coll. O.P.Srivastava (Reg.no.A-4300); 4 exs. Shankarpur,

20.v.2014, Coll. O. P. Srivastava (Reg.no.A-4313, 4315, 4317); 1ex. Talsari, 16.iv.2014, Coll. O. P. Srivastava (Reg. no.A-4309).

Diagnosis: Carapace not smooth but having bullous tubercles in seven parallel rows, frontal lobe blunt, its anterolateral border smooth whereas posterior border is bounded on either side by a faint demarcation. Pterygostomium region having a growth of hairy structure.

Distribution: India:AndhraPradesh,(Visakhapatnam), Lakshadweep, Odisha (Gopalpur coast), and West Bengal (Digha, Shankarpur, Talsari, Sunderban). Elsewhere: Japan.

Remarks: This species is reported new to this area.

Figures

Figure 1. Map of Digha coast showing collection sites: 1. Junput 2. Shankarpur 3. Digha Mohana 4. Udaipore and 5.Talsari.