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Tubuca urvillei

d'Urville's Fiddler Crab

Tubuca urvillei

Type Description

Gelasimus urvillei
Milne Edwards, H. (1852) Observations sur les affinités zoologiques et la classification naturelle des crustacés. Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Zoologie (Série 3) 18:109–166.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus TubucaSubgenus Tubuca
Common Names
English: Blue Fiddler Crab, d'Urville's Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Deltuca coarctata urvillei, Gelasimus Urvillei, Tubuca urvielli, Tubuca urvillei, Uca urvillei, Uca urvilli
Size
Large Carapace Breadth: 25.3 mm ± 4.39 (sd), 95% range: 16.7–34.0 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: South Africa to southern Somalia; Madagascar; Mayotte
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: Hodgson (1987); Shih et al. (2018)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
GBIF

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References

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