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Tubuca bellator

Belligerent Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Gelasimus bellator
White, A. (1847) Short descriptions of some new species of Crustacea in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15:84–86.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus TubucaSubgenus Australuca
Common Names
English: Belligerent Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Austruca bellator, Gelasimus bellator, Gelasimus signatus var. angustifrons, Tubuca bellator, Uca angustifrons, Uca bellator, Uca bellator bellator, Uca forceps var. angustifrons, Uca signata var. angustifrons, Uca signatus var. angustifrons
Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 14.7 mm ± 2.80 (sd), 95% range: 9.2–20.2 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: Philippines, Borneo, northern Java
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

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References

Adams & White (1848), Agustianingsih (2006), Altevogt (1955), Altevogt (1955), Altevogt (1957), Barnes (2010), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Brösing (2010), Clark & Presswell (2001), Crane (1941), Crane (1957), Crane (1967), Crane (1975), Das (2001), Das & Dev Roy (1989), Edney (1960), Edney (1961), Estampador (1937), Estampador (1959), Feest (1969), Fransen et al. (1997), Geist et al. (2012), Gordon (1934), Greenspan (1975), Hartnoll (1969), Hyatt et al. (1979), Juarrero de Varona & Ortiz (2003), Kingsley (1880), Krishnan (1992), Macnae (1968), Marshall & Orr (1960), Milne Edwards (1852), Milne Edwards (1854), Murniati (2015), Murniati & Pratiwi (2015), Nauck (1880), Ng et al. (2008), Ortmann (1897), Powers (1975), Pratiwi (2006), Pratiwi (2010), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Sastranegara et al. (2003), Serène (1973), Shih et al. (2016), Trivedi et al. (2018), Tweedie (1950), Tweedie (1954), Verwey (1930), von Hagen (1962), Wada (2019), Warner (1969), White (1847), White (1847), White (1847)