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Crustaceans

Arched Box Crab

Calappa convexa

Also known as: Armed Box Crab, Arrow Box Crab, Box Crab, Giant Box Crab, Shame-faced Crab

Adult
@fishx6 · Lembeh, Indonesia · August 20081 / 1
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Overview

Found over mud and sandy areas, moving slowly along the bottom of coral and rocky reefs.
Widespread Pacific

Box crab are named because of the way they can tuck their legs into their bodies giving the appearance of a neat box. Shame-faced is from the way their claws fold in in front of their face, as if hiding it in shame.

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How to identify

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Pacific Ocean
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Found over mud and sandy areas, moving slowly along the bottom of coral and rocky reefs.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumArthropoda
    3. classMalacostraca
    4. orderDecapoda
    5. familyCalappidae
    6. genusCalappa
    7. speciesCalappa convexa de Saussure, 1853

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    More in the family

    Decapoda