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Tubuca polita

Polished Fiddler Crab

Tubuca polita

Type Description

Uca polita
Crane, J. (1975) Fiddler Crabs of the World: Ocypodidae: Genus Uca. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus TubucaSubgenus Australuca
Common Names
English: Pink-clawed Fiddler Crab, Polished Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Australuca polita, Tubuca polit, Tubuca polita, Uca polita
Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 14.0 mm ± 4.60 (sd), 95% range: 5.0–23.0 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: Australia
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: George & Jones (1982); von Hagen & Jones (1989)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

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References

Alongi & Sasekumar (1992), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Benetti et al. (2013), Booksmythe et al. (2008), Crane (1975), Davie (1982), Dye & Lasiak (1986), Dye & Lasiak (1987), George & Jones (1982), Jamieson & Tudge (2000), Jones & George (1982), Kinnear et al. (2009), Levinton et al. (1996), Macnae (1966), Macnae (1968), Morgan (1990), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Otani et al. (2023), Peer et al. (2015), Pülmanns et al. (2016), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2014), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Saville-Kent (1897), Shih et al. (2016), Sturmbauer et al. (1996), Tan et al. (2018), Ting et al. (2020), von Hagen (1976), Wada (2020), Wang et al. (2020), Williams et al. (1980), Zeil et al. (2006)