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Leptuca batuenta

Beating Fiddler Crab

Leptuca batuenta

Type Description

Uca batuenta
Crane, J. (1941) Eastern Pacific Expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. XXVI. Crabs of the genus Uca from the west coast of Central America. Zoologica NY 26(3):145–208.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Leptuca
Common Names
English: Beating Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Leptuca batuenta, Uca batuenta
Size
Very Small Carapace Breadth: 6.4 mm ± 0.64 (sd), 95% range: 5.1–7.7 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: El Salvador to northern Peru
Red markers indicate locations where this species is found according to the scientific record; blue markers represent false or mistaken observations from the scientific record; green markers represent “research grade” observations imported from iNaturalist.
Range map data derived from: Crane (1975)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
GBIF

Photos

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Video

Male Leptuca batuenta feeding
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Male Leptuca batuenta feeding
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Male Leptuca batuenta feeding
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Male Leptuca batuenta waving (surrounded by miscellaneous other species)
26 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca batuenta waving
12 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Interspecific agression between male Leptuca batuenta (on right) and male Leptuca saltitanta (on left)
23 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

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References

Altevogt (1959), Altevogt (1962), Altevogt (1970), Altevogt (1972), Altevogt (1978), Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1954), Burkenroad (1947), Crane (1941), Crane (1943), Crane (1944), Crane (1947), Crane (1957), Crane (1975), Green (1961), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Invemar et al. (2006), Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Moscoso (2012), Moscoso (2013), Ng et al. (2008), Peters (1955), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016), von Hagen (1968), von Prahl (1982)