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Minuca herradurensis

La Herradura Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Uca galapagensis herradurensis
Bott, R. (1954) Dekapoden (Crustacea) aus El Salvador. 1. Winkerkrabben (Uca). Senckenbergiana biologica 35(3–4):155–180.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Minuca
Common Names
English: La Herradura Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Minuca herradurensis, Uca galapagensis herradurensis, Uca herradurensis, Uca macrodactyla glabromana
Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 16.5 mm ± 5.52 (sd), 95% range: 5.7–27.3 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: El Salvador to Panama
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: Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985); Crane (1975); Hendrickx (1979)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

Photos

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Video

Male Minuca herradurensis waving, partly blocked by grass
1:19 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

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References

Barnwell (1968), Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Boone (1929), Bott (1954), Bott (1958), Bott (1973), Crane (1941), Crane (1947), Crane (1957), Crane (1975), Ferraris & Norenburg (1997), Fingerman (1970), Fingerman (1988), Garth (1957), Glassell (1934), Hendrickx (1979), Hendrickx (1993), Hendrickx (1995), Landstorfer & Schubart (2010), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Maccagno (1928), Ng et al. (2008), Peters (1955), Rao (1985), Rathbun (1918), Retamal (1981), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016), Thurman (1979), Thurman (1981), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen & Holthuis (1968)