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Box Crabs
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Box Crabs

Calappidae

Calappidae is a family of crabs containing the following genera:

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).

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9 branches of this family, most-observed first

Typical Box Crabs

genusCalappa

Cryptosoma

genusCryptosoma

Platymera

genusPlatymera

Mursia

genusMursia

Cycloes

genusCycloes

Acanthocarpus

genusAcanthocarpus

Paracyclois

genusParacyclois

Calappula

genusCalappula

Cyclozodion

genusCyclozodion

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 121190.