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Tubuca coarctata

Compressed Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Gelasimus coarctatus
Milne Edwards, H. (1852) Observations sur les affinités zoologiques et la classification naturelle des crustacés. Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Zoologie (Série 3) 18:109–166.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus TubucaSubgenus Tubuca
Common Names
English: Compressed Fiddler Crab, Orange-clawed Fiddler Crab
Japanese: リュウキュウシオマネキ
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Gelasimus coarctata, Gelasimus coarctatus, Gelasimus thomsoni, Gelassimus Thompsoni, Tubuca coarctata, Uca coacrtata, Uca coarciata, Uca coarctata, Uca coarctata coarctata, Uca coarctate, Uca coartatus, Uca corctata, Uca ischnodactyla, Uca ischnodactylus, Uca mearnsi, Uca rathbunae, Uca rathbuni, Uca thomsoni
Size
Large Carapace Breadth: 21.4 mm ± 7.50 (sd), 95% range: 6.7–36.1 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: Ryukus Islands (Japan), Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia (Queensland), New Caledonia, Fiji
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); Fukui et al. (1989); Geist et al. (2012); George & Jones (1982); Huang et al. (1989); Michie et al. (2015); Poupin2010; Shih et al. (2016); von Hagen & Jones (1989)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

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References

Adirwiryono et al. (1984), Altevogt (1957), Altevogt (1959), Altevogt & von Hagen (1964), Aoki et al. (2009), Barnes (2010), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1973), Bouvier (1940), Crane (1957), Crane (1966), Crane (1967), Crane (1975), Davie (1982), De Man (1891), De Man (1892), De Man (1902), Dewiyanti et al. (2018), Estampador (1937), Estampador (1959), Fabricius (1775), Fabricius (1781), Fabricius (1798), Fabricius (1798), Fukui et al. (1989), Geist et al. (2012), George & Jones (1982), Gordon (1934), Grant & McCulloch (1906), Gronovius (1764), Haswell (1882), Heller (1863), Herbst (1782), Ho et al. (1993), Jones & George (1982), Juncker & Poupin (2009), Kawaida et al. (2017), Kingsley (1880), Linnaeus (1766), Maccagno (1928), Macnae (1966), Macnae (1967), Marbun et al. (2019), Michie et al. (2015), Milne Edwards (1852), Milne Edwards (1854), Milne-Edwards (1873), Miyake (1938), Murniati (2009), Murniati (2010), Murniati & Pratiwi (2015), Nemec (1939), Ng & Davie (2002), Ng et al. (2008), Ng & Richer de Forges (2007), Ng et al. (2017), Ng et al. (2001), Nobili (1899), Nobili (1899), Oliveira (1939), Olivier (1811), Omori & Holthuis (2000), Omori & Holthuis (2005), Ortmann (1894), Ortmann (1897), Pearse (1912), Pearse (1912), Pearse (1914), Pesta (1918), Petiver (1704), Poupin (2010), Pratiwi (2006), Pratiwi (2007), Pratiwi (2007), Pratiwi (2009), Pratiwi (2010), Pratiwi & Rahmat (2015), Pratiwi & Widyastuti (2013), Pratiwi & Widyastuti (2015), Pratiwi et al. (2018), Rathbun (1910), Rathbun (1913), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2014), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Sakai (1939), Sakai (1974), Sakai (1976), Salmon et al. (1978), Sastranegara et al. (2003), Shih et al. (2008), Shih et al. (2010), Shih et al. (2016), Shih et al. (2010), Slatyer et al. (2008), Stimpson (1858), Stimpson (1907), Stossich (1880), Tan & Ng (1994), Tesch (1918), Tweedie (1937), Tweedie (1950), Vermeiren et al. (2015), Vermeiren & Sheaves (2014), Vermeiren & Sheaves (2014), von Hagen (1970), Wada (2019), Wada (2020), Ward (1941), Yoshigou (2001)