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Leptuca beebei

Beebe's Fiddler Crab

Leptuca beebei

Type Description

Uca beebei
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: Beebe's Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Celuca beebei, Leptuca beebei, Uca beebei
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 8.1 mm ± 1.72 (sd), 95% range: 4.7–11.5 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
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

Photos

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Video

Closeup of male Leptuca beebei feeding
36 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca beebei waving
22 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca deichmanni in front of stick, male Leptuca beebei behind stick, both waving
46 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca beebei waving and fighting (Uca stylifera in foreground at start of clip)
55 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca beebei waving and fighting
57 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca beebei waving with small fight
35 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca beebei evicts female from burrow, then digs a bit to make it larger
59 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

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References

Altevogt (1955), Altevogt (1955), Altevogt (1957), Altevogt (1972), Bailey (2012), Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Christy (1985), Christy (1988), Christy & Dennenmoser (2006), Crane (1941), Crane (1943), Crane (1943), Crane (1944), Crane (1947), Crane (1957), Crane (1975), Detto et al. (2004), Domínguez Alonso (2008), Dunham & Gilchrist (1988), Green (1961), Hartnoll (1988), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Holthuis (1954), Holthuis (1954), Kaufmann & Barnwell (1985), Kim et al. (2006), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Levinton et al. (1996), Moscoso (2012), Moscoso (2013), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Peters (1955), Powers (1975), Powers & Bliss (1983), Ra'anan & Cohen (1985), Rathbun (1918), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Sastry (1983), Schöne (1961), Shih et al. (2016), Skov & Hartnoll (2001), Strauch & Abele (1979), Sturmbauer et al. (1996), von Hagen (1962), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1975), von Prahl (1981), von Prahl (1982), Weis (2012), Yamaguchi (1971), Zucker (1978)