Galapagos Species Database
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Cryptosoma garthi
cangrejo de caja, Box crabs
C. garthi bears close resemblance to C. bairdii; however, it is distinguished from the latter in its colour pattern, having sharply converging posterolateral margins, somewhat rougher carapace, obtuse rather than acuminate tooth proximally on chela, and a beaded line rather than an unevenly granulate ridge parallel to lower margin of chela (Galil & Clark, 1996).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Decapoda
Suborder
Pleocyemata
Superfamily
Calappoidea
Family
Calappidae
Genus
Cryptosoma
Species
garthi
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
Distribution: Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Revillagigedo Is., Cocos Island and Galapagos Island (Galil & Clark, 1996).
- Galil, B. S. Clark, P. F. (1996) A revision of Cryptosoma Brullé, 1837 and Cycloes de Haan, 1837 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Calappidae) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 117(2), 175–204. https://doi.org/10.1006/zjls.1996.0036
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Cryptosoma garthi", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8467. Accessed 4 November 2026.