Type Description

Species: Gelasimus stenodactylus

• Milne Edwards, H., and H. Lucas. 1843. Crustacés. Pp. 1-39 in Voyage dans l'Amerique Meridionale (Le Brésil, la République crientale de l'Urugauy, la République Argentine, la Patagonie, la République du Chili, la République de Bolivia, la République du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833, A. D. d'Orbigny, ed., Volume VI, Part I + Atlas. Paris: Bertranad.

Information

Subgenus: Leptuca
Synonyms/Alternate Spelling: Gelasimus gibbosus
Geographic Range (Map): Eastern Pacific - El Salvador to Chile

Pictures

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

Photos from Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute website.

Video

	352 x 240 4.37 MB 37 sec. MPEG-1	Uca stenodactylus male waving Rodman Naval Base, Panama (September 30, 1997) © 2003 by Michael S. Rosenberg
	352 x 240 4.46 MB 37 sec. MPEG-1	Uca stenodactylus male waving Rodman Naval Base, Panama (September 30, 1997) © 2003 by Michael S. Rosenberg
	352 x 240 6.01 MB 50 sec. MPEG-1	Uca stenodactylus female rejection display Rodman Naval Base, Panama (October 3, 1997) © 2003 by Michael S. Rosenberg
	352 x 240 9.29 MB 1:18 MPEG-1	Uca stenodactylus female rejection display, with attempted male herding Rodman Naval Base, Panama (October 3, 1997) © 2003 by Michael S. Rosenberg

References

Altevogt (1957, 1972); Backwell et al. (1998); Bott (1954, 1973); Cano (1889); Christy (1987, 1988); Christy and Backwell (2006); Christy and Salmon (1991); Christy et al. (1998, 2003 x 2); Crane (1941, 1943, 1944, 1957, 1958, 1975); deRivera and Vehrencamp (2001); Garth (1957); Guinot (1979); von Hagen (1962, 1968); Holthuis (1954); Kinglsey (1880); Maccagno (1928); Milne Edwards and Lucas (1843); Milne Edwards (1852); Nicolet (1849); Nobili (1899); Oliveira et al. (1998); Ortmann (1894, 1897); Rathbun (1918); Rosenberg (2000, 2001, 2002); Peters (1955); Porter (1913); von Prahl (1982); Rankin (1898); Rathbun (1898, 1911); Shih et al. (2005); Smith (1869, 1870 = G. gibbosus & G. stenodactylus); Vannini (1980); Yamaguchi (2001 x 2); Yamaguchi et al. (2005); Zucker (1986); Zucker and Denny (1979)

Note: Boshe (1982) refers to a study of predation on Uca stenodactyla, except he's studing a species from Tanzania. I don't know which species he actually studied.