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Minuca ecuadoriensis

Pacific Hairback Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Uca ecuadoriensis
Maccagno, T. (1928) Crostacei Decapodi. Le specie del genere Uca Leach conservate nel Regio Museo Zoologico di Torino. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della R. Università di Torino 41(11):1–52.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Minuca
Common Names
English: Ecuadorian Fiddler Crab, Pacific Hairback Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Minuca ecuadoriensis, Minuca lanigera, Uca ecuadoriensis, Uca ecuatoriensis, Uca lanigera, Uca schmitti, Uca vocator ecuadoriensis
Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 19.4 mm ± 4.41 (sd), 95% range: 10.8–28.1 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: Mexico to northern Peru
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); Hendrickx (1979); Hendrickx (1984); von Prahl (1982)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

Photos

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Video

Closeup of male Minuca ecuadoriensis feeding
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Closeup of male Minuca ecuadoriensis feeding
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Small male Minuca ecuadoriensis waving
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Long shot of male Minuca ecuadoriensis waving
35 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

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References

Arzola-González et al. (2010), Barnwell (1988), Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Brusca (1973), Brusca (1980), Crane (1941), Crane (1943), Crane (1943), Crane (1943), Crane (1947), Crane (1975), Félix-Pico et al. (2003), Fransen et al. (1997), García-Madrigal et al. (2022), Garth (1948), Hendrickx (1979), Hendrickx (1984), Hendrickx (1993), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (2005), Invemar et al. (2006), Landstorfer & Schubart (2010), Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Levinton et al. (1996), Maccagno (1928), Moscoso (2012), Moscoso (2013), Ng et al. (2008), Nobili (1901), Oliveira (1939), Rathbun (1918), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Rupp (2004), Rupp (2006), Rupp (2011), Rupp (2012), Rupp (2013), Rupp (2013), Rupp (2013), Rupp (2014), Rupp (2014), Rupp (2015), Shih et al. (2016), Sturmbauer et al. (1996), Thurman (1979), Villegas et al. (2021), Villegas et al. (2022), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1970), von Prahl (1982), von Prahl (1986)