Photos
Video
- Male Uca argillicola feeding outside of burrow
- 37 sec., 352 x 240, MP4
- Male Uca argillicola retreating into burrow
- 14 sec., 352 x 240, MP4
- Male Uca argillicola feeding outside of burrow
- 25 sec., 352 x 240, MP4
Art
No art available at this time.
References
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- Crane, J. 1975. Fiddler Crabs of the World: Ocypodidae: Genus Uca Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- deRivera, C.E., and S.L. Vehrencamp. 2001. Male versus female mate searching in fiddler crabs: A comparative analysis. Behavioral Ecology 12(2):182-191.
- Garth, J.S. 1948. The Brachyura of the "Askoy" expedition. With remarks on carcinological collecting in the Panama Bight. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 92(1):1-66.
- Landstorfer, R.B., and C.D. Schubart. 2010. A phylogeny of Pacific fiddler crabs of the subgenus Minuca (Crustacea, Brachyura, Ocypodidae: Uca) with the description of a new species from a tropical gulf in Pacific Costa Rica. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 48(3):214-218.
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- Morgan, S.G., and J.H. Christy. 1995. Adaptive significance of the timing of larval release by crabs. American Naturalist 145(3):457-479.
- Rosenberg, M.S. 2000. The Comparative Claw Morphology, Phylogeny, and Behavior of Fiddler Crabs (Genus Uca). Pp. 182 in Ecology and Evolution (Stony Brook, NY: State University of New York at Stony Brook).
- Rosenberg, M.S. 2002. Fiddler crab claw shape variation: A geometric morphometric analysis across the genus Uca. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 75(2):147-162.
- Sturmbauer, C., J.S. Levinton, and J.H. Christy. 1996. Molecular phylogeny analysis of fiddler crabs: Test of the hypothesis of increasing behavioral complexity in evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 93(20):10855-10857.
- von Hagen, H.-O. 1987. Morphologie und Winkbalz einer neuen Uca-Art (Crustacea, Brachyura) aus dem Staat Espirito Santo (Brasilien). Mitteilungen aus dem hamburgischen zoologischen Museum und Institut 84:81-94. {Morphology and waving display of a new species of Uca (Crustacea, Brachyura) from the state of Espirito Santo (Brazil)}
- von Prahl, H. 1982. The distribution of the genus Uca (Crustacea: Ocypodidae) along the Colombian Pacific coast. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 109(4):433-442.
- Yamaguchi, T. 2001. Daytime larval release of the fiddler crab, Uca lactea (Decapoda, Brachyura, Ocypodidae). Crustaceana 74(6):545-555.