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Austruca sindensis

Indus Fiddler Crab

Austruca sindensis

Type Description

Gelasimus inversus var. sindensis
Alcock, A.W. (1900) Materials for a carcinological fauna of India No. 6. The Brachyura Catometopa, or Grapsoidea. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 64(3. Part 2):279–456.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus AustrucaSubgenus Sinduca
Common Names
English: Indus Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Austruca sindensis, Gelasimus inversus sindensis, Gelasimus inversus var. sindensis, Gelasmus inversus sindensis, Uca inversa sindensis, Uca inversa subsp. sindensis, Uca inversa var. sindensis, Uca sendensis, Uca sindensis
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 8.9 mm ± 1.97 (sd), 95% range: 5.0–12.7 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: Kuwait to northwestern India
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: Collins et al. (1984); Crane (1975); Naderloo & Türkay (2012); Naderloo et al. (2013); Naderloo et al. (2015); Saher & Qureshi (2012); Trivedi et al. (2015)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

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References

Alcock (1900), Al-Khayat (1996), Al-Nafisi et al. (2009), Apel & Türkay (1999), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Beleem et al. (2019), Beleem et al. (2014), Bott (1973), Chhapgar (1958), Collins et al. (1984), Colosi (1924), Crane (1957), Crane (1975), Dev Roy (2013), Ghotbeddin et al. (2011), Keeratipattarakarn et al. (2018), Keeratipattarakarn et al. (2020), Laurie (1915), Lavajoo et al. (2013), Lewinsohn (1977), Mokhlesi et al. (2011), Naderloo (2017), Naderloo et al. (2015), Naderloo et al. (2016), Naderloo & Türkay (2012), Naderloo et al. (2010), Naderloo et al. (2013), Naser et al. (2010), Naz (2016), Ng et al. (2008), Peer et al. (2015), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Saher et al. (2017), Saher et al. (2014), Shih et al. (2018), Shih et al. (2013), Shih et al. (2016), Shih et al. (2019), Shih & Poupin (2020), Shih et al. (2022), Tesch (1918), Tina et al. (2016), Tina et al. (2018), Trinkaus-Randall (1982), Trivedi et al. (2015), Trivedi et al. (2018), Trivedi & Vachhrajani (2017), Vannini & Valmori (1981)