page_title: Calappa (crab)
section_title: Extinct species
hierarchical_section_title: Calappa (crab) / Extinct species
caption_attribution_description: English: Fossil of Calappa species, on display at the Museo Paleontologico Giulio Maini, Ovada
context_page_description: Calappa is a genus of crabs known commonly as box crabs or shame-faced crabs. The name box crab comes from their distinctly bulky carapace, and the name shame-faced is from anthropomorphising the way the crab's chelae fold up and cover its face, as if it were hiding its face in shame.
context_section_description: A further 18 species are known only from fossils.
  Calappa chungii  Hu and Tao 1985
  Calappa costaricana  Rathbun 1918
  Calappa earlei  Withers 1924
  Calappa heberti  Brocchi 1883
  Calappa lanensis  Rathbun 1926
  Calappa laraensis  Van Straelen 1933
  Calappa madoerensis  Van Straelen 1938
  Calappa oboui  Hu and Tao 1996
  Calappa pavimenta  Schweitzer et al. 2006
  Calappa praelata  Lorenthey 1929
  Calappa protopustulosa  Noetling 1901
  Calappa restricta  Milne-Edwards 1873
  Calappa robertsi  Ross 1964
  Calappa sahelensis  Van Straelen 1936
  Calappa sangiranensis  Van Straelen 1938
  Calappa sexapinosa  Morris and Collins 1991
  Calappa zinsmeisteri  Feldmann and Wilson 1988
  Calappa zurcheri  Bouvier 1899
  Fossils of within this genus can be found in sediment of Europe, United States, Mexico, Central America, Australia and Japan from Paleogene to recent (age range: 33.9 to 0.0 Ma).
caption: Fossil of Calappa species
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