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Leptuca umbratila

Pacific Mangrove Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Uca umbratila
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: Pacific Mangrove Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Leptuca umbratila, Planuca zilchi, Uca thayeri umbratila, Uca thayeri umbriatila, Uca umbratila
Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 20.1 mm ± 4.83 (sd), 95% range: 10.7–29.6 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: El Salvador to Colombia
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); von Prahl (1981); von Prahl (1982)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
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NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
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References

Abele & Kim (1989), Albrecht & von Hagen (1981), Altevogt (1972), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Crane (1941), Crane (1947), Crane (1975), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Invemar et al. (2006), Landstorfer & Schubart (2010), Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Ng et al. (2008), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2014), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1987), von Prahl (1981), von Prahl (1982), von Prahl (1986)