Fiddler Crabs

Uca tomentosa

Matted Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Uca tomentosa
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 26:145-208.

Information

Subgenus
Leptuca
Common Names
Matted Fiddler Crab
Synonyms
Celuca tomentosa, Leptuca mertensi, Uca mertensi
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific: El Salvador to northern Peru
Map data derived from: Crane (1975); Abele & Kim (1989)

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References

  • Abele, L.G., and W. Kim. 1989. The Decapod Crustaceans of the Panama Canal. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 482:1-50.
  • Altevogt, R. 1969. Ein sexualethologischer Isolationsmechanismus bei sympatrischen Uca-Arten (Ocypodidae) des Ostpazifik. forma et functio 1:238-249. {An ethological reproductive isolation mechanism in sympatric species of Uca (Ocypodidae) of the Eastern Pacific}
  • Altevogt, R. 1972. Physiological inter-relations of display and locomotion in fiddler crabs: An evolutionary aspect. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India 14(2):456-467.
  • Bott, R. 1954. Dekapoden (Crustacea) aus El Salvador. 1. Winkerkrabben (Uca). Senckenbergiana biologica 35(3-4):155-180.
  • Bott, R. 1973. Die verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen der Uca-Arten (Decapoda: Ocypodidae). Senckenbergiana biologica 54(4-6):315-325.
  • 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 26:145-208.
  • Crane, J. 1975. Fiddler Crabs of the World: Ocypodidae: Genus Uca Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Nabout, J.C., L.C. Terribile, L.M. Bini, and J.A.F. Diniz-Filho. 2010. Phylogenetic autocorrelation and heritability of geographic range size, shape and position of fiddler crabs, genus Uca (Crustacea, Decapoda). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 48(2):102-108.
  • Rosenberg, M.S. 2000. The Comparative Claw Morphology, Phylogeny, and Behavior of Fiddler Crabs (Genus Uca). Pp. 182 in Ecology and Evolution (Stony Brook, NY: State University of New York at Stony Brook).
  • Rosenberg, M.S. 2002. Fiddler crab claw shape variation: A geometric morphometric analysis across the genus Uca. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 75(2):147-162.
  • von Hagen, H.-O. 1970. Anpassungen an das spezielle Gezeitenzonen-Niveau bei Ocypodiden (Decapoda, Brachyura). forma et functio 2:361-413. {Adaptations to the special intertidal level of habitat in Ocypodid crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura)}