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Calvactaea

Calvactaea tumida is a species of crabs in the family Xanthidae, the only species in the genus Calvactaea.

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Calvactaea
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Xanthidae
Genus: Calvactaea
Ward, 1933
Species:
C. tumida
Binomial name
Calvactaea tumida
Ward, 1933

Calvactaea tumida is a species of crabs in the family Xanthidae, the only species in the genus Calvactaea.12

Found primarily off the coast of New South Wales, Australia, as well as, Sri Lanka, China, Taiwan, and Japan.3

References

References

  1. Ng, Peter K. L.; Guinot, Danièle; Davie, Peter J. F. (January 2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2011 – via the National University of Singapore.
  2. Ahyong, Shane T. (2024). "Calvactaea Ward, 1933". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  3. Marine Species Identification List