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Crustaceans

Spectacled Box Crab

Calappa philargius

Also known as: Box Crab, Brickred Box Crab, Fourspot Box Crab, Four-spotted Box Crab, Redspot Box Crab, Red-spotted Box Crab, Shameface Crab, Shame-faced Crab, Spotted Box Crab

Adult
@fishx6 · Lembeh, Indonesia · August 20081 / 6
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Overview

Found moving slowly over mud, rubble, sand, and seagrass bottoms, of coral and rocky reefs.
Widespread West 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

COLOURS
Pattern
red spots

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Western Pacific
  • Country only · 6
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Found moving slowly over mud, rubble, sand, and seagrass bottoms, of coral and rocky reefs.

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Adult photos 6

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumArthropoda
    3. classMalacostraca
    4. orderDecapoda
    5. familyCalappidae
    6. genusCalappa
    7. speciesCalappa philargius (Linnaeus, 1758)

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