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Tubuca flammula

Flame-backed Fiddler Crab

Tubuca flammula

Type Description

Uca flammula
Crane, J. (1975) Fiddler Crabs of the World: Ocypodidae: Genus Uca. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus TubucaSubgenus Tubuca
Common Names
English: Flame-backed Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Tubuca flammula, Tubuca flamula, Uca coarctata flammula, Uca flammula
Size
Large Carapace Breadth: 19.9 mm ± 7.24 (sd), 95% range: 5.7–34.1 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: western and northern Australia; Papua (Indonesia)
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); Fransen et al. (1997); George & Jones (1982); von Hagen & Jones (1989)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
GBIF

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References

Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Booksmythe et al. (2008), Chertoprud et al. (2012), Crane (1975), Davie (1982), Fransen et al. (1997), George & Jones (1982), Haswell (1882), Jones & George (1982), Kinnear et al. (2009), Macnae (1966), Macnae (1968), Morgan (1990), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Nobbs (2003), Pratiwi (2007), Pratiwi (2010), Rathbun (1914), Rathbun (1924), Ribeiro et al. (2003), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2014), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Saville-Kent (1897), Shih et al. (2016), Shih et al. (2010), Wada (2020)