Type Description

Species: Gelasimus princeps

• Smith, S. I. 1870. Notes on American Crustacea. No. 1. Ocypodoidea. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science 2:113-176.

Information

Subgenus: Uca
Possibly sister species to Uca monolifera
Geographic Range (Map): Eastern Pacific - Mexico to Peru

Note: Uca princeps appears to have two color morphs: a dark blue morph restricted to Panama and a beige morph found throughout the rest of its range. Whether these represent different species or is an odd regional variation remains to be studied. Some information on this variation can be found in Crane (1975).

Pictures

Photo by M. S. Rosenberg, fall of 1997, Rodman N.B., Panama City, Panama.

This photo is from Kerstitch (1989).

Photo by Ernesto Campos.

Video

	352 x 240 10.2 MB 1:26 MPEG-1	Uca princeps male waving Rodman Naval Base, Panama (November 14, 1997) © 2003 by Michael S. Rosenberg
	352 x 240 22.9 MB 3:13 MPEG-1	Uca princeps male waving (Uca beebei in background) Rodman Naval Base, Panama (October 3, 1997) © 2003 by Michael S. Rosenberg

References

Altevogt (1957, 1969, 1972); Backwell et al. (1998); Barnwell and Stillman (1990); Barnwell et al. (1983); Bott (1954, 1973); Brusca (1973, 1980); Crane (1941, 1944, 1957, 1975); Garth (1960); Guinot (1979); von Hagen (1962, 1968, 1970); Hendrickx (1979, 1984); Hugie (2004); Lockington (1877); Maccagno (1928); Maloney et al. (1989); Peters (1955); Rathbun (1911, 1918, 1924); Rosenberg (2000, 2001, 2002); Salmon et al. (1978); Saussure (1853 = G. platydactylus); Smith (1870, 1871); Stillman and Barnwell (2004); Sullivan and Tentori (1981); Suzawa et al. (1993); Thurman (2004); Yamaguchi (2001)