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Leptuca subcylindrica

Laguna Madre Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Gelasimus subcylindricus
Stimpson, W. (1859) Notes on North American Crustacea, No. 1. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 7:49–93.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Leptuca
Common Names
English: Laguna Madre Fiddler Crab, Puffed Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Gelasimus sub-cylindricus, Gelasimus subcylindricus, Leptuca subcylindrica, Leptuca subcylindrical, Uca sub-cylindrica, Uca subcylindrica
Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 17.9 mm ± 3.08 (sd), 95% range: 11.9–24.0 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Western Atlantic Realm: USA (Corpus Christi, Texas) through Mexico (Tampico)
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: Barnwell & Thurman (1984); Crane (1975); Neck (1987); Thurman (1987)
External Links
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References

Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bright & Hogue (1972), Broghammer & Thurman (1996), Crane (1975), Felder et al. (2009), Fisk (1941), Fotheringham & Brunenmeister (1975), Gilchrist (1988), Hernández Aguilera et al. (1996), Hines (1982), Kingsley (1880), Nabout et al. (2010), Neck (1987), Ng et al. (2008), Oliveira (1939), Ortmann (1897), Pérez-Mozqueda et al. (2014), Peyton et al. (1964), Powers (1975), Powers (1977), Rabalais (1984), Rabalais & Cameron (1981), Rabalais & Cameron (1982), Rathbun (1900), Rathbun (1918), Rathbun (1935), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Rupp (2006), Salmon & Horch (1972), Sendler (1912), Shih et al. (2016), Smith (1870), Stimpson (1859), Thurman (1979), Thurman (1984), Thurman (1994), Thurman (1996), Thurman (1998), Thurman (2000), Thurman (2004), Thurman & Barnwell (1977), Thurman & Thurman (1981), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1980), von Hagen (1987)