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Leptuca spinicarpa

Spiny-wristed Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Uca spinicarpa
Rathbun, M.J. (1900) Synopses of North-American invertebrates. XI. The Catometopous or Grapsoid crabs of North America. American Naturalist 34(403):583–592.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Leptuca
Common Names
English: Spined Fiddler Crab, Spiny-wristed Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Gelasimus tetragonon var. spinicarpa, Leptuca spinicarpa, Uca spinicarpa, Uca spinicarpus
Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 16.3 mm ± 3.90 (sd), 95% range: 8.6–23.9 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Western Atlantic Realm: USA (northwestern Florida) through Mexico
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: Hopkins & Thurman (2010); Romero-Rodríguez et al. (2017)
External Links
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References

Abele & Kim (1986), Balbort & Thurman (1997), Barnwell (1963), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bennett et al. (1957), Bott (1954), Brown (1961), Chace & Hobbs (1969), Crane (1944), Crane (1975), del Castillo et al. (2015), Feest (1969), Felder et al. (2009), Fingerman (1956), Fingerman (1957), Fingerman (1957), Fingerman (1959), Fingerman et al. (1958), Fotheringham & Brunenmeister (1975), Guillén-Hernández et al. (2008), Guillen-Hernández et al. (2013), Heard (1976), Heard (1977), Heard (1982), Hedgecock et al. (1982), Juarrero de Varona & Ortiz (2003), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Oliveira (1939), Palmer (1973), Pérez-Mozqueda et al. (2014), Powell (1962), Powers (1977), Rathbun (1900), Rathbun (1900), Rathbun (1918), Raz-Guzman & Sanchez (1992), Romero-Rodríguez et al. (2017), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2013), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Salmon & Atsaides (1968), Salmon & Atsaides (1968), Salmon et al. (1979), Salmon & Horch (1972), Shih et al. (2016), Thurman (1979), Thurman (1981), Thurman (1987), Thurman (1994), Thurman (1996), Thurman (2000), Thurman (2001), Thurman (2004), Utrera-López & Capistrán-Barradas (2013), van Delft (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1980), Weygoldt (1977), Wunderlich et al. (2017)