Calappidae
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| Calappidae Temporal range: | |
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| Calappa japonica seen from above; the front of the animal is at the top of the picture | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Superfamily: | Calappoidea |
| Family: | Calappidae Milne-Edwards, 1837 |
Calappidae is a family of crabs containing the following genera:[1][2][3]
- Acanthocarpus Stimpson, 1871
- Calappa Weber, 1795
- †Calappella Rathbun, 1919
- †Calappilia A. Milne-Edwards, 1873
- Calappula Galil, 1997
- †Carinocalappa Beschin, Busulini & Tessier in Beschin, Busulini, Fornaciari, Papazzoni & Tessier, 2018
- Corallomursia De Angeli & Ceccon, 2014
- Cryptosoma Brullé, 1839
- Cycloes De Haan, 1837
- Cyclozodion Williams & Child, 1989
- Mursia A. G. Desmarest, 1823
- †Mursilata C.-H. Hu & Tao, 1996
- †Mursilia Rathbun, 1918
- †Mursiopsis Ristori, 1889
- †Nantocyclois Beschin, Busulini & Tessier, 2013
- †Paracorallomursia Beschin, Busulini, Tessier & Zorzin, 2016
- Paracyclois Miers, 1886
- Platymera H. Milne Edwards, 1837
- †Pseudocorallomursia Beschin, Busulini, Tessier & Zorzin, 2016
- †Stenodromia A. Milne-Edwards, 1873
- †Tavernolesia Artal & Onetti, 2017
- †Tutus Collins in Collins, Portell & Donovan, 2009
Fossils within this family can be found in sediment of Europe, United States, Mexico, Central America, Australia and Japan from Cretaceous to recent (age range: 66.043 to 0.0 Ma).[4]
