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Leptuca stenodactylus

Narrow-fingered Fiddler Crab

Leptuca stenodactylus

Type Description

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

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Leptuca
Common Names
English: Narrow-fingered Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Gelasimus gibbosus, Gelasimus stenodactylus, Leptuca stenodactyla, Leptuca stenodactylus, Minuca stenodactyla, Uca gibbosa, Uca stenodactyla, Uca stenodactyla var. gibbosa, Uca stenodactylus
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 9.7 mm ± 1.91 (sd), 95% range: 6.0–13.5 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: El Salvador to Chile
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: Crane (1975)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
GBIF

Photos

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Video

Male Leptuca stenodactylus waving
37 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca stenodactylus waving
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Female Leptuca stenodactylus rejection display
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Female Leptuca stenodactylus rejection display, with attempted male herding
1:18 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

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References

Altevogt (1955), Altevogt (1955), Altevogt (1957), Altevogt (1972), Backwell et al. (1998), Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Cano (1889), Chirichigno Fonseca (1970), Cortes-Carrasco & del Socorro Garcia-Madrigal (2013), Crane (1941), Crane (1943), Crane (1944), Crane (1947), Crane (1957), Crane (1958), Crane (1975), de Gibert et al. (2013), Domínguez Alonso (2008), Garth (1957), Gerstaecker & Ortmann (1901), Guinot (1979), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Holmes (1900), Holthuis (1954), Ives (1891), Juarrero de Varona & Ortiz (2003), Kameya et al. (1998), Kingsley (1880), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Lockington (1877), Low & Ng (2012), Luederwaldt (1919), Maccagno (1928), Milne Edwards (1852), Milne Edwards (1854), Milne Edwards & Lucas (1843), Moreira (1901), Moscoso (2012), Moscoso (2013), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Nicolet (1849), Nobili (1899), Nobili (1901), Nobili (1901), Oliveira (1939), Ortmann (1897), Peters (1955), Porter (1913), Porter (1917), Pretzmann (1983), Rankin (1898), Rathbun (1898), Rathbun (1899), Rathbun (1911), Rathbun (1915), Rathbun (1918), Rathbun (1935), Retamal (1981), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Schöne (1961), Shih et al. (2016), Smith (1869), Smith (1870), Smith (1871), Streets (1877), Thurman (1979), Vannini (1980), von Hagen (1962), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen & Holthuis (1968), von Prahl (1982), Wicksten (2012), Zucker & Denny (1979)