Type Description

Species: Ocypoda pugilator


Information

Subgenus: Minuca
Common Name: Atlantic Sand Fiddler Crab
Geographic Range (Map): Western Atlantic - USA (Massachusetts to Mississippi, scattered in Texas), Bahamas


Pictures

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This drawing is from De Kay (1844). He called this species Gelasimus vocans. It is almost certainly Uca pugilator. A second figure of a "Variety A" is probably Uca pugnax. Note that the major claw is drawn backwards (i.e., it is a right major claw on a left-handed crab). This figure was probably based on a collected specimen missing the major cheliped and the one they replaced it with for the drawing was a right (and not a left) major cheliped.


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This photo was taken from a website at Francis Marion University.


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From Tarpon Springs Notebook. I'm pretty sure these are U. pugilator.


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From an Australian web site.


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Male and female on rocky background

Photos by M. S. Rosenberg, Flax Pond, Long Island, New York.


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This photo is from www.webshots.com.


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These photos are from Petwer Woods photography.


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These photos are from Florida and were provided by Chris Lukhaup.


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Eight week old crabs. The photos were provided by Hans-Georg Rupp.


Video

No video available at this time.


References

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(1973); Frix et al. (1991); Full and Herreid (1984); Full et al. (1982); Gäde (1979); Gaus et al. (1989); Genoni (1985, 1991); George et al. (2001); Gerald et al. (2005); Gould (1841 = G. vocans); Grant and Eisen (1980); Grant et al. (1980, 1981, 1983); Graszynski and Bigalke (1986); Graszynski and Drews (1981); Graszynski and Rohloff (1983); Graszynski et al. (1979, 1981); Gray (1942); Green et al. (1959); Greenberg et al. (1983); Greenspan (1982); Grimes (1976); Gudmundsdóttir (2002); Gulmann and Mullineaux (2001); Guyselman (1953); von Hagen (1961, 1962, 1970, 1980); Hammerstein (1981); Hanke et al. (1992); Hannan and Evans (1973); Hanström (1935); Hanumante and Fingerman (1981 x 3, 1982 x 7); Hanumante et al. (1980, 1981, 1984); Haresign (1986); Haresign et al. (1996); Hariharan (1966); Hartnoll (1988, 2006); Harwitz et al. 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(1967 x 2, 1968 x 2, 1970 x 2, 1971, 1972, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987); Rathbun (1900, 1905, 1918); Rawson and DeCoursey (1976); Rebach (1983); Rebach and French (1996); Reddy and Fingerman (1995); Reddy et al. (1996, 1997); Reinsel (1991, 1992, 1993, 2004); Reinsel and Rittschof (1995); Rheinsmith et al. (1974); Rhodes (1986); Ribeiro et al. (2005); Richardson et al. (1991); Riehm and Rao (1985, 1987); Riehm et al. (1985); Ringold (1979); Rittschof et al. (1995); Robertson(1980); Robertson and Newell (1982 x 2); Robertson and Pfeiffer (1982); Robertson et al. (1980, 1981); Roccatagliata and Jordá (2002); Rodríguez et al. (1992, 2000); Rosenberg (2000, 2001, 2002); Rothe et al. (1991); Rudenskaya (2003); Rudenskaya et al. (2004); Ruppert and Fox (1988); Saigusa et al. 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