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Leptuca coloradensis

Painted Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Gelasimus coloradensis
Rathbun, M.J. (1893) Descriptions of new genera and species of crabs from the west coast of North America and the Sandwich Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 16(933):223–260.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Leptuca
Common Names
English: Painted Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Gelasimus coloradensis, Leptuca coloradensis, Uca coloradensis, Uca crenulata coloradensis
Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 15.8 mm ± 2.42 (sd), 95% range: 11.0–20.5 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: Gulf of California, Mexico
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); Garth & Abbott (1980); Green (1980); Villalobos Hiriart et al. (1989)
External Links
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References

Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Boone (1930), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Brusca (1973), Brusca (1980), Crane (1941), Crane (1943), Crane (1975), Félix-Pico et al. (2003), Garth (1960), Garth & Abbott (1980), Green (1980), Hendrickx (1993), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (2005), Holmes (1900), Maccagno (1928), Mangum (1993), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Oliveira (1939), Rathbun (1893), Rathbun (1900), Rathbun (1918), Rathbun (1935), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016), Thurman (1979), Villalobos Hiriart et al. (1989), von Hagen (1970), Wicksten (2008), Wicksten (2012)