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Tubuca rosea

Rose Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Gelasimus roseus
Tweedie, M.W.F. (1937) On the crabs of the family Ocypodidae in the collection of the Raffles Museum. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 13:140–170.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus TubucaSubgenus Angustuca
Common Names
English: Rose Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Gelasimus roseus, Tubuca rosea, Uca rosea
Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 17.5 mm ± 6.13 (sd), 95% range: 5.4–29.5 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: eastern India to Bangladesh; southern Myanmar to Singapore; western Borneo; northern Sumatra
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: Bairagi & Misra (1988); Bouillon et al. (2002); Crane (1975); Fransen et al. (1997)
External Links
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References

Akash & Chowdhury (2017), Alcock (1900), Ashton et al. (2003), Ashton et al. (2003), Bairagi (1995), Bairagi & Misra (1988), Baylis (1939), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1973), Chertoprud et al. (2012), Chopra & Das (1937), Crane (1957), Crane (1966), Crane (1975), De (2000), de Gibert et al. (2013), De Man (1887-1888), De Man (1891), De Man (1895), Deb (1998), Deb (1999), Dev Roy & Nandi (2008), Dev Roy & Rath (2017), Emmerson (1990), Fransen et al. (1997), Frith & Frith (1978), IUCN Bangladesh (2015), Jaroensutasinee & Jaroensutasinee (2004), Keeratipattarakarn et al. (2018), Keeratipattarakarn et al. (2020), Khan (1995), Khan (2003), Krishnan (1992), Kuhapong et al. (2021), Lanchester (1900), Macintosh (1978), Mandal & Nandi (1989), Mitra & Misra (2006), Mitra et al. (2010), Murniati & Pratiwi (2015), Nabout et al. (2010), Naiyanetr (2007), Ng & Davie (2002), Ng et al. (2008), Patra et al. (2017), Pearse (1932), Pearse (1936), Ramakrishna et al. (2003), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Sarkar et al. (2019), Sasekumar (1974), Sasekumar & Chong (1998), Sen & Homechaudhuri (2015), Sen et al. (2014), Serène (1973), Shen (1940), Shen (1940), Shih et al. (2016), Shih et al. (2019), Talapatra et al. (2014), Tan & Ng (1994), Tina (2020), Tina et al. (2017), Tina et al. (2016), Tina et al. (2016), Tina et al. (2017), Tina et al. (2018), Tina et al. (2018), Tina et al. (2017), Tina et al. (2018), Tina et al. (2018), Tina & Keeratipattarakarn (2019), Tina et al. (2019), Ting et al. (2020), Trivedi et al. (2018), Tweedie (1937), von Hagen (1970)