Calappidae

{{Short description|Family of crabs}}

{{Automatic Taxobox

| image = Calappa japonica.jpg

| image_caption = Calappa japonica seen from above; the front of the animal is at the top of the picture

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|66.043|0|Cretaceous - Recent}}

| taxon = Calappidae

| authority = Milne-Edwards, 1837

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Calappidae is a family of crabs containing the following genera:{{cite journal|journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2009 |volume=Suppl. 21 |pages=1–109 |title=A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans |author1=Sammy De Grave |author2=N. Dean Pentcheff |author3=Shane T. Ahyong |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |format=PDF |display-authors=etal |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |archivedate=2011-06-06 }}[https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id84488/ Biolib]{{cite WoRMS|last=Ahyong|first=Shane T.|author-link=Shane T. Ahyong|date=19 July 2024|title=Calappidae De Haan, 1833|id=106747|access-date=9 March 2025}}

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{{Linked genus list

| Acanthocarpus | Stimpson, 1871

| Calappa | Weber, 1795

| † Calappella | Rathbun, 1919

| † Calappilia | A. Milne-Edwards, 1873

| Calappula | Galil, 1997

| † Carinocalappa | Beschin, Busulini & Tessier in Beschin, Busulini, Fornaciari, Papazzoni & Tessier, 2018

| Corallomursia | De Angeli & Ceccon, 2014

| Cryptosoma | Brullé, 1839

| Cycloes | De Haan, 1837

| Cyclozodion | Williams & Child, 1989

| Mursia | A. G. Desmarest, 1823

| † Mursilata | C.-H. Hu & Tao, 1996

| † Mursilia | Rathbun, 1918

| † Mursiopsis | Ristori, 1889

| † Nantocyclois | Beschin, Busulini & Tessier, 2013

| † Paracorallomursia | Beschin, Busulini, Tessier & Zorzin, 2016

| Paracyclois | Miers, 1886

| Platymera | H. Milne Edwards, 1837

| † Pseudocorallomursia | Beschin, Busulini, Tessier & Zorzin, 2016

| † Stenodromia | A. Milne-Edwards, 1873

| † Tavernolesia | Artal & Onetti, 2017

| † Tutus | Collins in Collins, Portell & Donovan, 2009

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Fossils within this family can be found in sediment of Europe, United States, Mexico, Central America, Australia and Japan from Cretaceous to recent (age range: 66.043 to 0.0 Ma).[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=93849 Fossilworks]