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Leptuca terpsichores

Dancing Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Uca terpsichores
Crane, J. (1941) Eastern Pacific Expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. XXVI. Crabs of the genus Uca from the west coast of Central America. Zoologica NY 26(3):145–208.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Leptuca
Common Names
English: Dancing Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Leptuca terpsichores, Uca musica terpsichore, Uca musica terpsichores, Uca terpsichores
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 8.6 mm ± 0.92 (sd), 95% range: 6.8–10.4 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: southern Guatemala to northern Peru
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
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

Photos

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Video

Male Leptuca terpsichores waving
21 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca terpsichores waving
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Male Leptuca terpsichores waving
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Male Leptuca terpsichores waving
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Male Leptuca terpsichores waving by hood
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Male Leptuca terpsichores waving
1:26 min., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca terpsichores displaying, with quick grab and throw (~36 sec. into clip)
58 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca terpsichores fighting
1:05 min., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca terpsichores fighting
18 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

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References

Altevogt (1957), Altevogt (1970), Altevogt (1972), Aspey (1978), Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bergin (1981), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Brusca (1980), Christy & Dennenmoser (2006), Christy et al. (1996), Christy et al. (2005), Cortes-Carrasco & del Socorro Garcia-Madrigal (2013), Crane (1941), Crane (1943), Crane (1944), Crane (1947), Crane (1957), Crane (1966), Crane (1975), Doherty (1982), Dumortier (1963), Dunham & Gilchrist (1988), Ghent & Zucker (1990), Greenspan (1975), Guinot-Dumortier & Dumortier (1960), Harris et al. (1998), Hartnoll (1988), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Hyatt (1973), Hyatt (1975), Kaufmann & Barnwell (1985), Kerr et al. (2010), Kim et al. (2006), Kim et al. (2004), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Moscoso (2012), Moscoso (2013), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Peters (1955), Powers (1975), Powers & Bliss (1983), Powers & Cole (1976), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Salmon & Hyatt (1983), Sastry (1983), Schöne (1961), Shih et al. (2016), Skov & Hartnoll (2001), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1975), von Prahl (1986), Wada (1993), Weis (2012), Zucker (1972), Zucker (1973), Zucker (1974), Zucker (1976), Zucker (1977), Zucker (1978), Zucker (1980), Zucker & Denny (1979)