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Petruca panamensis

Rock Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Gelasimus panamensis
Stimpson, W. (1859) Notes on North American Crustacea, No. 1. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 7:49–93.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Petruca
Common Names
English: Panamanian Fiddler Crab, Rock Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Gelasimus panamensis, Minuca panamensis, Petruca panamensis, Uca panamensis
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 15.3 mm ± 2.25 (sd), 95% range: 10.9–19.7 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
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

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Video

Multiple male Petruca panamensis waving
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Multiple male Petruca panamensis waving, female (hidden on right) feeding
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Male Petruca panamensis waving
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Multiple male Petruca panamensis waving
1:38 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

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References

Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Boone (1927), Boone (1929), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Cano (1889), Cano (1889), Chirichigno Fonseca (1970), Crane (1941), Crane (1944), Crane (1947), Crane (1957), Crane (1975), Evans (1967), Garth (1948), Glassell (1934), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Holthuis (1954), Invemar et al. (2006), Kameya et al. (1998), Kingsley (1880), Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007), Leija-Tristán et al. (1990), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Levinton et al. (1996), Lockington (1877), Maccagno (1928), Moscoso (2012), Moscoso (2013), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Nobili (1901), Oliveira (1939), Peters (1955), Powers (1975), Rathbun (1911), Rathbun (1918), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Salmon & Zucker (1988), Shih et al. (2016), Smith (1870), Stimpson (1859), Strauch & Abele (1979), Sturmbauer et al. (1996), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Prahl (1982), von Prahl (1986), von Prahl & Guhl (1979)