Brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the remote oceanic Archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz, South Atlantic Ocean Author In, First Published text Zootaxa 2022 2022-06-02 5146 1 129 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5146.1.1 1175­5334 52C3E5E3-80B6-49DB-BC9C-194560D491F7 Genus Calappa Weber, 1795 Type species. Cancer granulatus Linnaeus, 1758 [ Type locality: erroneously given as “America”]. Remarks. Linnaeus (1758: 627) stated that his Cancer granulatus inhabits America, however this species is actually known from the eastern Atlantic (Gulf of Biscay to Cape Verde ) and Mediterranean Sea. The genus is worldwide in distribution, mainly in tropical and subtropical zones.