Calappa gallus (Herbst, 1803)

Castro, Peter, 2011, Catalog of the anomuran and brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) of the Hawaiian Islands 2947, Zootaxa 2947 (1), pp. 1-154 : 39

Calappa gallus (Herbst, 1803)

Cancer gallus Herbst, 1803: 46 , pl. 58, fig. 1 [color] [type locality: Ostindien; holotype: ZMB Herbst 2169].

Hawaiian Is. records:

Calappa gallus (Herbst, 1803) — Dana 1852b: 393 [Maui]. — Rathbun 1906: 887 [Kaua‘i, Moloka‘i, Hawai‘i, “Modu Manu” (=Moku Manu, or Nihoa)]; 1937: 214, pl. 65, figs. 2, 3 [Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Moloka‘i, Hawai‘i]. — Edmondson 1925: 31 [French Frigate Shoals]; 1946: 271 [H.I.]. — Titcomb et al. 1979: 370 [H.I.]. — Galil 1997: 293, figs. 10c, 12, 13c, 31 [O‘ahu]. — Ng 2000: 951, fig. 5h–l [H.I.]. — Godwin & Bolick 2006: 38, 48 [Moloka‘i]. — Hoover 2006: 267, color photograph [O‘ahu].

Calappa cf. gallus (Herbst, 1803) — Russo 1994: 68, color photograph [H.I.].

Taxonomy. Galil (1997), Ng (2000)

Geographical distribution. Circumtropical

Habitat. Buries in sand; intertidal, shallow subtidal to bathyal, to 216 m.