Calappa pelii

Weight

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Length

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Lifespan

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Main food

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Habitat

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Young per litter or clutch

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Conservation status

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Countries on record

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No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumArthropoda
3. classMalacostraca
4. orderDecapoda
5. familyCalappidae
6. genusCalappa
7. SpeciesCalappa pelii Herklots, 1851

Synonyms Calappa piscatorum

Catalogue of Life

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@misc{calappa_pelii_2026,
  title = {Calappa pelii (Calappa pelii)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/calappa-pelii},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}