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Spectacled box crab Collection Image, Figure 1, Total 3 Figures
Spectacled box crab Collection Image, Figure 2, Total 3 Figures
Spectacled box crab Collection Image, Figure 3, Total 3 Figures
Spectacled box crab
  • species_info
    • english title:Spectacled box crab
    • scientific_name:Calappa philargius
    • DIVISION:Arthropoda
    • subphylum:Crustacea
    • class:Malacostraca
    • orders:Decapoda
    • family:Calappidae
    • genus:Calappa
    • species:philargius
    • scientific_name_pub_year:1758
    • scientific_name_pub_doc:(Linnaeus, 1758)
    • species_author:Linnaeus
  • collection_content
    • collection_locality
      • country_id:TWN
      • country_en:Republic of China
      • subdivision_1_en:Taipei Prefecture
      • subdivision_2_en:Keelung District
      • subdvision_3_en:Keelung
      • locality_en:Keelung,Keelung District,Taipei Prefecture
      • latitude_value:25.152503
      • latitude_direction:N
      • longitude_value:121.767149
      • longitude_direction:E
    • collection_info
      • collection_date:1917.08.10
      • Collection Date:1917/08/10
      • quantity:1
    • collection_record
      • catalog no:TMCD000127
      • CAT_NO:CR.0127
  • gdesc_info
    • GDESC:  頭胸甲形狀與捲折饅頭蟹相似,但前、側緣之翼狀突出缺刻更大,形成更大形銳齒,後緣亦然,後惻緣及後緣列生之齒數為7,成為本種之特徵。眼窩區各有一眼鏡狀斑點,故中文名又俗稱「眼斑饅頭蟹」,螯足腕節及掌節外側面各具一大圓斑,皆有別於本屬的其他種類。最大體型甲寬12公分,通常8~10公分。以小型甲殼十足類或單枚貝類為食,常與捲折饅頭蟹一同被捕獲販售。
        廣分布於印度及太平洋熱帶至亞熱帶海域。棲息於近沿海20-60公尺沙底或岩礁邊緣。