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Smooth Box Crab

Calappa calappa

Seabook: Smooth Box Crab

Max Size

Max Weight

Max Depth

50 m

Description

  Calappa calappa, also known as the smooth or red-spotted box crab, is a tropical marine species of crab with an Indo-Pacific distribution, and showing great variability in its patterning and colouration. First described as Cancer calappa by Linnaeus in 1758 from a specimen originating from Ambon Island, and later in ... Read more in Seabook

Locations

Colors

orange

Habitat and Environment

Mud and Sand