Calappa calappa, also known as the smooth box crab or red-spotted box crab, is a tropical marine species of crab with an Indo-Pacific distribution, and showing great variability in its patterning and colouration. First described as Cancer calappa by Linnaeus in 1758 from a specimen originating from Ambon Island, and later in 1781 as Cancer fornicatus by Fabricius, it was finally placed in the genus Calappa by Lancelot Alexander Borradaile in 1903.[1][2] The name calappa is associated with kelapa, the Malay word for 'coconut'.[3]
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^"Calappa calappa". Archived from the original on 2013-04-15.
^Galil, Bella S. (1997). "Crustacea Decapoda: A revision of the Indo-Pacific species of the genus Calappa Weber, 1795 (Calappidae)" (PDF). Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 176: 273.
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