Decapoda - Brachyura - Calappidae - Calappa
| Calappa galloides Stimpson, 1859 |
World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009) - Western Atlantic - 2-220 m. Ber, Fla–GMx–Brazil, As I, E Atl.
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Soft bottom (mud or sand)
Vertical range : Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) - Min-Max observed: 2-220 m
Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Croix), Lesser Antilles, ICA (St Martin, St Barthélemy, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Barbados), IOV (Tortuga, Bonaire, Curaçao). 2-220 m. ATL.
Calappa squamosa Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 51, pl. 4, fig. 21, 22, 22bis, Guadeloupe (MNHN dry collection, n°160-161, B-18809) - Accepted as Calappa galloides Stimpson, 1859 in WoRMS (2016).
Calappa galloides - Streets, 1872, 133, St Martin [coll. Van Rijgersma]. - Questel, 2014: 10, St Barthélemy. - Stepp, 2014: 22, Curaçao [Fossil remains]. - Luque et al., 2017: 59, Curaçao [Fossil remains]. - Questel, 2019: 13, St Barthélemy.
Calappa gallus - Rathbun, 1920a: 15, St Martin, Curaçao [coll. J. Boeke, 1905]. - Rathbun, 1921: 66, Barbados [Barbados-Antigua Expedition 1918]. - Rathbun, 1924: 13, Curaçao [coll. C.J. van der Horst, 1920; not C. gallus (Herbst)]. - Rathbun, 1936: 388, Bonaire [coll. P. Hummelinck, 1930]. - Rathbun, 1937: 214, part Atlantic records only, St Croix, St Martin, Dominica, Barbados, Bonaire, Curaçao. - Holthuis, 1959: 76, St Martin [Museum Philadelphia, coll. Van Rijgersma]. - Lira, 2004: tab. 1, Tortuga - See Comment.
Calappa galloides - Saint Martin, RNN Inventory 2012, 20/04/2012, UF32365, photo dSTM_6649; UF32369, photo dSTM_6694.
Calappa galloides - Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, det. E. Macpherson, Besse 2013, specimen damaged (no abdomen, no legs) 1 female 37.5x44.8 mm, MNHN-IU-2013-6704, st. GM18, 1 m; 1 juv., MNHN-IU-2013-4454, st. GD21, 40 m; 1 male 20.5x24.9 mm, MNHN-IU-2013-6705, st. GD69, 60 m JL1530, photo; 1 juv, MNHN-IU-2013-4512, st. GS21, 6 m - Remark (August 2016) MNHN-IU-2013-4519 recorded as C. galloides in Paris collection is probably Cyclozodion tuberatum instead and MNHN-IU-2013-4451 recorded as Hepatus pudibundus is probably a juvenile of Calappa galloides).
Calappa galloides - Martinique, specimen in MNHN, campaign IGMAR 3, st. 402, sonde 23, dredge 14°41.89'N, 60°51.57'W, IFREMER 11/09/1994, G. Paulmier, det. M. Tavares 2007 (as Calappa gallus) - Photo in situ, Martinique, Y. Buske, 2013, Cap enragé, det. J. Poupin from photo.
Comment: This species is closely related to Calappa gallus (Herbst, 1803) from the Indo-West Pacific. Rathbun (1937: 214) has considered that the two species were synonyms but Manning & Chace (1990: 45) have re-established the distinction between the two and attributed all records from the Atlantic to C. galloides.
Comment(s) on data
Calappa gallus (Herbst, 1803) is an Indo-West Pacific species.
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database