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Leptuca crenulata

Crenulated Fiddler Crab

Leptuca crenulata

Type Description

Gelasimus crenulatus
Lockington, W.N. (1877) Remarks on the Crustacea of the west coast of North America, with a catalogue of the species in the museum of the California Academy of Sciences. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 7(1):145–156.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Leptuca
Common Names
English: California Fiddler Crab, Crenulated Fiddler Crab, Mexican Fiddler Crab, Notched Fiddler Crab, Southern California Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Gelasimus crenulatus, Gelasimus gracilis, Leptuca crenulata, Uca crenulata, Uca crenulata crenulata, Uca gracilis
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 10.0 mm ± 2.21 (sd), 95% range: 5.7–14.4 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: southern California, USA (Santa Barbara) to Manzanillo, 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); Hendrickx (1984); Hubbard & Dugan (1989); Leija-Tristán et al. (1990); Naiditch et al. (2001); Neuffer et al. (2001)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
GBIF

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References

Allen (1976), Alvarez del Castillo C. et al. (1992), Arzola-González et al. (2010), Baldwin & Kirschener (1976), Baldwin & Kirschener (1976), Barnwell (1976), Bayley (1972), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bertics & Ziebis (2009), Bliss (1968), Bonfil et al. (1992), Bott (1954), Bowlus & Somero (1979), Brusca (1973), Brusca (1980), Crane (1941), Crane (1947), Crane (1975), Crawford et al. (1989), DeCoursey (1983), deRivera (2000), Dubofsky-Porter et al. (2017), Edney (1961), Faxon (1895), Félix-Pico et al. (2003), García-Madrigal et al. (2022), Garth (1960), Garth & Abbott (1980), Gordillo et al. (2014), Green (1980), Green et al. (1959), Greenaway (1988), Gross (1955), Gross (1957), Gross (1961), Gross (1964), Headstrom (1979), Heard (1976), Hendrickx (1979), Hendrickx (1984), Hendrickx (1993), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (2005), Hinton (1969), Holmes (1900), Holmes (1904), Honegger (1973), Honegger (1973), Honegger (1976), Hubbard & Dugan (1989), Jansen (1970), Johnson & Snook (1927), Jones (1941), Kaiser & Lehmann (1975), Kingsley (1880), Kinne (1963), Lehmann (1976), Lehmann et al. (1974), Leija-Tristán et al. (1990), Lockington (1877), Lockwood (1962), Lockwood (1967), Maccagno (1928), Mantel & Farmer (1983), McDermott & Pope (2010), McFadden & Thurman (2003), Nabout et al. (2010), Naiditch et al. (2001), Neuffer et al. (2001), Ng et al. (2008), Nicou (1959), Nicou (1960), Nobili (1899), Nobili (1901), Oliveira (1939), Ortmann (1897), Potts & Parry (1964), Powers (1975), Powers & Cole (1976), Przibram (1905), Rathbun (1893), Rathbun (1899), Rathbun (1900), Rathbun (1904), Rathbun (1918), Rathbun (1923), Rathbun (1924), Ricketts et al. (1968), Robertson (1960), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2018), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Sarkisian (1957), Scatolini & Zedler (1996), Schmitt (1921), Shih et al. (2016), Sullivan & Tentori (1981), Thurman (1979), Thurman (2004), Tseng et al. (2020), Vernberg & Vernberg (1970), von Hagen (1968), Wanson et al. (1984), Wicksten (2008), Wicksten (2012), Wolvekamp & Waterman (1960), Young (1900), Zucker (1973)