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Minuca brevifrons

Narrow-fronted Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Gelasimus brevifrons
Stimpson, W. (1860) Notes on North American Crustacea, in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. No. II. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 7:176–246.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Minuca
Common Names
English: Narrow-fronted Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Gelasimus brevifrons, Minuca brevifrons, Uca brevifrons, Uca brevifrons var. delicata
Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 23.1 mm ± 3.43 (sd), 95% range: 16.4–29.8 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: Mexico to northern Colombia
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: Brusca (1980); Crane (1975)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
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NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
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References

Altevogt (1957), Andersen et al. (1990), Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Brusca (1973), Brusca (1980), Buitendijk (1950), Crane (1941), Crane (1943), Crane (1943), Crane (1947), Crane (1975), García-Madrigal et al. (2022), Garth (1948), Garth (1960), Hendrickx (1993), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (2005), Holmes (1900), Holmes (1904), Holthuis (1954), Holthuis (1954), Invemar et al. (2006), Kingsley (1880), Landstorfer & Schubart (2010), Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Lockington (1877), Maccagno (1928), McMahon & Burggren (1988), Ng et al. (2008), Nobili (1897), Oliveira (1939), Ortmann (1897), Pesta (1931), Rathbun (1911), Rathbun (1918), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016), Smith (1870), Stimpson (1860), Thurman (1979), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Prahl (1986), Young (1900)