Tags: Crustacean.

Calappa hepatica is a common benthic species of box crab of tropical and subtropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans and the Red Sea.

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binomial authority
Carl Linnaeus, 10th edition of Systema Naturae
class
Malacostraca
family
Calappidae
genus
Calappa (crab)
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda, Crab
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
*Calappa spinosissima (H. Milne-Edwards 1837), *Calappa tuberculosa (Guérin 1829), *Calappe sandwichien (Eydoux & Souleyet 1842), *Cancer hepaticus (Linnaeus 1758), *Cancer tuberculatus (Herbst 1785)

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