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Paraleptuca crassipes

Thick-legged Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Gelasimus crassipes
Adams, A., and A. White (1848) Crustacea. Pp. 1–66 in The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. "Samarang"; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., during the years 1843-1846, A. Adams, ed., Volume 8. London: Reeve, Benham, & Reeve.

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Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus Paraleptuca
Common Names
Chinese: 粗腿招潮蟹, 粗腿绿眼招潮蟹
English: Estuary Fiddler Crab, Thick-legged Fiddler Crab
Japanese: ベニシオマネキ
Malay: Kěpiting Dēlimah
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Amphiuca chlorophthalmus gaimardi, Gelasimus crassipes, Gelasimus Gaimardi, Gelasimus Gaimardii, Gelasimus Latreilii, Gelasimus Latreillei, Gelasimus Latreilli, Gelasimus latreillii, Gelasimus pulchellus, Paraleptuca crassipes, Paraleptuca gaimardi, Uca chlorophtalmus crassipes, Uca chlorophthalmus crasipes, Uca chlorophthalmus crassipes, Uca crassipes, Uca gaimardi, Uca latreillei, Uca novae-guineae, Uca novaeginea, Uca novaeguineae, Uca novaegunieae, Uca novaguinae, Uca pulchella
Size
Very Large Carapace Breadth: 23.7 mm ± 8.43 (sd), 95% range: 7.2–40.2 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: common throughout central and western Pacific islands from French Polynesia through parts of Indonesia and the Philippines; Taiwan; Ryuku Islands (Japan); eastern 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: Barnes (2010); Crane (1975); Poupin (2010); Shih et al. (2012); Shih et al. (2016)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

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References

Adams & White (1848), Alcock (1900), Aoki et al. (2009), Balss (1922), Barnes (2010), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bergey & Weis (2006), Boone (1934), Bott (1973), Bouchard et al. (2013), Brocchi (1875), Brody et al. (2014), Cai et al. (1998), Cano (1889), Cano (1889), Chertoprud et al. (2012), Clark & Presswell (2001), Crane (1957), Crane (1975), Crosnier (1965), De Man (1887-1888), De Man (1891), De Man (1902), Dérijard (1966), Doflein (1899), Doflein (1904), Estampador (1937), Estampador (1959), Forest & Guinot (1961), Fujita (2018), George & Jones (1982), Gordon (1934), Guinot (1985), Heller (1865), Henderson (1893), Ho et al. (1993), Holthuis (1953), Ikeda et al. (2004), Juncker & Poupin (2009), Kawaida et al. (2017), Kingsley (1880), Lin (1949), Maccagno (1928), Marbun et al. (2019), Michie et al. (2015), Miers (1886), Milne Edwards (1852), Milne Edwards (1854), Milne-Edwards (1873), Miyake (1938), Miyake (1939), Murniati (2010), Murniati & Pratiwi (2015), Nabout et al. (2010), Naderloo et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Ng & Richer de Forges (2007), Ng et al. (2017), Ng et al. (2001), Nobili (1899), Nobili (1907), Oliveira (1939), Omori & Holthuis (2000), Omori & Holthuis (2005), Ortmann (1894), Ortmann (1897), Parisi (1918), Pearse (1912), Pesta (1911), Pesta (1913), Poupin (1994), Poupin (1996), Poupin (2010), Poupin & Juncker (2008), Poupin & Juncker (2010), Pratiwi (2009), Pratiwi & Aswandy (2010), Pratiwi & Widyastuti (2013), Pratiwi et al. (2018), Rathbun (1907), Rathbun (1910), Rathbun (1913), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Rupp (2012), Rupp (2013), Rupp (2013), Rupp (2013), Rupp (2014), Rupp (2014), Rupp (2015), Sakai (1936), Sakai (1939), Sakai (1940), Sakai (1976), Sastranegara et al. (2003), Sendler (1923), Serène (1973), Seurat (1934), Shen (1940), Shen (1940), Shih (2013), Shih et al. (2023), Shih et al. (2013), Shih et al. (2008), Shih et al. (2010), Shih et al. (2016), Shih et al. (2010), Shih & Poupin (2020), Smith (2003), Stimpson (1858), Stimpson (1907), Takeda & Miyake (1976), Tanaka et al. (2004), Tanase & Wada (2019), Tesch (1918), Thallwitz (1891), Tweedie (1950), Vannini & Valmori (1981), Vatova (1943), von Martens (1868), von Martens (1869), Wada (2001), Wada (2019), Weis & Weis (2004), White (1847), White (1847), White (1847), Yoshigou (2001), Yoshigou (2002)