Calappa gallus (Herbst, 1803)

Mantelatto, Fernando L., Tamburus, Ana Francisca, Magalhães, Tatiana, Buranelli, Raquel C., Terossi, Mariana, Negri, Mariana, Castilho, Antonio L., Costa, Rogério C. & Zara, Fernando J., 2020, Checklist of decapod crustaceans from the coast of the São Paulo state (Brazil) supported by integrative molecular and morphological data: III. Infraorder Brachyura Latreille, 1802, Zootaxa 4872 (1), pp. 1-108 : 12

Calappa gallus (Herbst, 1803)

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Cancer gallus Herbst, 1803: 18 .

Material examined. Brazil, São Paulo: 1 ♀, CCDB 10 , Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba , coll. F. Mantelatto, 12.ix.1995 ; 1 ♀, CCDB 12 , Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba , coll. F. Mantelatto, 27.vii.1996 ; 1 ♀, CCDB 14 , Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba , coll. A. Fransozo, 17.vi.1996 ; 1 ♀ (parental with larvae), CCDB 1412 , Ubatuba, Ilha Anchieta , coll. F. Mantelatto, 01.iii.2002 .

Distribution. Western Atlantic—Bermuda, USA (Florida), Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, north of South America, and Brazil ( Maranhão, Ceará, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Bahia, São Paulo, Santa Catarina). Eastern Atlantic—from Canary Islands to Angola. Central Atlantic—Ascencion and Saint Helena Islands. Indo-West Pacific—Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Thailand, Japan ( Rathbun 1937; Barnard 1950; Fausto-Filho 1966; Coelho & Ramos 1972; Powers 1977; Garth 1978; Manning & Holthuis 1981; Abele & Kim 1986; Manning & Chace 1990; Barreto et al. 1993; Taishaku & Konish 1995; Melo 1996; González et al. 2000; Mantelatto & Fransozo 2000; Ng et al. 2002; Dall’Occo et al. 2004; Melo & Veloso 2005; Bouzon & Freire 2007; Almeida & Coelho 2008).

Remarks. Previous records on the coast of São Paulo include Ubatuba, comprising Ilha Anchieta ( Mantelatto & Fransozo 2000; Bertini et al. 2004, 2010; Mantelatto et al. 2004a; Camargo et al. 2020), Ubatumirim (Bertini et al. 2004; Fransozo et al. 2012). Sequence accession number (GenBank): CCDB 5916—COI ( MT623341 ) (present study).

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FIGURE 2. Families Aethridae and Calappidae. A) Hepatus pudibundus (Herbst, 1785) (CCDB 5088). B) Calappa gallus (Herbst, 1803) (CCDB 10). C) Cryptosoma balguerii (Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867) (CCDB 6417). Animals from Brazil, São Paulo state: Cananéia (A), Ubatuba (B, C). Sex: male (A), female (B, C). Scale bars (mm): A—25; B—18; C—18. Photographs A and B, by R.C. Buranelli; C, extracted from Tamburus et al. (2019).