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Calappa bicornis Two Horn Box Crab, Shame-faced crab

Calappa bicornis is commonly referred to as Two Horn Box Crab, Shame-faced crab. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Two-Horn Box Crab,Calappa bicornis, Bali 2023


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lexID:
12128 
AphiaID:
209494 
Scientific:
Calappa bicornis 
German:
Zwei-Horn-Schamkrabbe 
English:
Two Horn Box Crab, Shame-faced Crab 
Category:
Krabben 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Calappidae (Family) > Calappa (Genus) > bicornis (Species) 
Initial determination:
Miers, 1884 
Occurrence:
Bali, Cebu ((Philippines), China, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Japan, Lembeh Strait, Madagascar, Moluccas, Philippines, Réunion , Sulawesi, Thailand, the Seychelles 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
17 - 150 Meter 
Habitats:
Sandy sea floors, Seawater, Sea water 
Size:
6,7 cm 
Temperature:
°F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Carnivore, Predatory, Snails 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2024-05-23 19:10:46 

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Calappa bicornis Miers, 1884

Calappa is a genus of crabs known commonly as box crabs or shame-faced crabs.

Calappa bicornis, commonly known as the Two-Horn Box crab, has two distinctively different claws one has a special tooth for cutting open shells (gastropods) and the other with long slender fingers to pull out the exposed gastropod.

External links

  1. Crab Database (en). Abgerufen am 10.11.2023.
  2. Marine Species Identification Portal (en) (Archive.org). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. Reefguide (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

Pictures

Male

Calappa bicornis,Two horn box crab, Male, Carapace width 78.2mm,Balud Island, Mindanao, Philippines 2016

Commonly

Two-Horn Box Crab,Calappa bicornis, Bali 2023
Two-Horn Box Crab,Calappa bicornis, Bali 2023
Calappa bicornis,Two horn box crab,Philippines 2017

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