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Leptuca leptodactyla

Thin-fingered Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Uca leptodactyla
Rathbun, M.J. (1898) [Type description of Uca leptodactyla] in The Northrop collection of Crustacea from the Bahamas; W. M. Rankin, pp. 225-258. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 11(12):227–228.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Leptuca
Common Names
English: Marbled Fiddler Crab, Thin-fingered Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Gelasimus leptodactylus, Leptuca leptodactyla, Uca leptodactyla, Uca leptodactylus, Uca leptostyla
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 10.6 mm ± 1.06 (sd), 95% range: 8.5–12.7 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Western Atlantic Realm: Caribbean, Venezuela to Brazil, eastern Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico), southeastern Florida (USA)
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 & Thurman (1984); Barnwell (1986); Crane (1975); Thurman (1987); Thurman et al. (2010); Thurman et al. (2013)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

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References

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