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Uca ornata

Ornate Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Gelasimus ornatus
Smith, S.I. (1870) Notes on American Crustacea. No. 1. Ocypodoidea. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science 2:113–176.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily UcinaeSupertribe UcitaeTribe UciniGenus UcaSubgenus Acanthoplax
Common Names
English: Ornate Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Gelasimus ornatus, Uca ornata, Uca pizarri
Size
Very Large Carapace Breadth: 42.3 mm ± 5.14 (sd), 95% range: 32.2–52.3 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: El Salvador 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: Crane (1975)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
GBIF

Photos

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Video

Male Uca ornata waving (Leptuca beebei in background)
42 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Uca ornata waving (Leptuca beebei in background)
1:23 min., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Uca ornata waving (Leptuca beebei in background)
1:04 min., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Uca ornata waving, despite missing his major cheliped
52 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Uca ornata waving (Leptuca beebei in background)
6:15 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

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References

Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1954), Crane (1941), Crane (1957), Crane (1975), Domínguez Alonso (2008), Fransen et al. (1997), Garth (1957), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Kingsley (1880), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Lockington (1877), Low & Ng (2012), Luque et al. (2015), Luque et al. (2017), Moscoso (2012), Moscoso (2013), Ng et al. (2008), Portell et al. (2012), Rathbun (1911), Rathbun (1918), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016), Smith (1870), Smith (1871), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1970), von Prahl & Toro (1985)