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Tubuca capricornis

Capricorn Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Uca dussumieri capricornis
Crane, J. (1975) Fiddler Crabs of the World: Ocypodidae: Genus Uca. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus TubucaSubgenus Tubuca
Common Names
English: Capricorn Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Tubuca capricornis, Uca capricornis, Uca pavo
Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 17.0 mm ± 6.03 (sd), 95% range: 5.2–28.8 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: northern and western Australia
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: George & Jones (1982); von Hagen & Jones (1989)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
GBIF

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References

Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Booksmythe et al. (2008), Crane (1975), Davie (1982), George & Jones (1982), Jones & George (1982), Kinnear et al. (2009), Morgan (1990), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Rupp (2012), Rupp (2013), Rupp (2014), Rupp (2015), Shih et al. (2018), Shih et al. (2016), Slatyer et al. (2008), Tan et al. (2018), Tina et al. (2017), Tina et al. (2018), Tina et al. (2017), Tina et al. (2018), Tina et al. (2018), Ting et al. (2020), Wada (2020), Wang et al. (2020), Yang et al. (2019)