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Austruca iranica

Iranian Fiddler Crab

Austruca iranica

Type Description

Uca annulipes iranica
Pretzmann, G. (1971) Ergebnisse einiger Sammelreisen nach Vorderasien. 2. Teil: Marine Brachyura. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 75:477–487.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus AustrucaSubgenus Austruca
Common Names
English: Iranian Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Austruca iranica, Uca annulipes iranica, Uca iranica, Uca lactea iranica
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 9.0 mm ± 2.75 (sd), 95% range: 3.7–14.4 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: Kuwait to Pakistan, northeastern United Arab Emirates
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: Naderloo et al. (2010); Naderloo & Türkay (2012); Naderloo et al. (2013); Naderloo et al. (2015); Saher et al. (2014); Shih et al. (2009)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

Photos

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Video

Surface mating (close up)
4:28 min., 1920 × 1080, MP4
Surface mating
1:47 min., 1920 × 1080, MP4
Female search interrupted by predator as a male unsuccesfully tries to ward off an attack by a mudskipper.
2:05 min., 1920 × 1080, MP4

Art

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References

Alcock (1900), Al-Ghais & Cooper (1996), Al-Khayat (1996), Al-Musawi & Wagner (2012), Al-Nafisi et al. (2009), Apel & Türkay (1999), Baakdah (2018), Beleem et al. (2019), Collins et al. (1984), El-Sayed et al. (2016), Ghotbeddin et al. (2011), Hornby (1997), Jones & Clayton (1983), Keeratipattarakarn et al. (2018), Keeratipattarakarn et al. (2020), Maccagno (1928), Mokhlesi et al. (2011), Mokhtari et al. (2008), Murniati & Pratiwi (2015), Naderloo (2017), Naderloo et al. (2015), Naderloo et al. (2016), Naderloo & Türkay (2012), Naderloo et al. (2010), Naderloo et al. (2013), Nobili (1906), Odhano et al. (2015), Pretzmann (1971), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Saher et al. (2017), Saher et al. (2014), Shih et al. (2018), Shih et al. (2010), Shih et al. (2016), Shih et al. (2019), Shih & Poupin (2020), Shih et al. (2022), Tina et al. (2016), Tina et al. (2017), Tina et al. (2018), Tina et al. (2018), Tina et al. (2018), Trivedi et al. (2018), Trivedi & Vachhrajani (2017)