Fiddler Crab Species

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Species | Synonymy

The following are the currently accepted species names for the genus Uca, arranged alphabetically. Depending on the treatment (e.g., Crane 1975), some of the following would be considered subspecies.

The references on these pages can all be found in the full reference list. References such as “Yamaguchi (2001 x 4)” indicate that there were four separate papers referencing that species (I'm not using “a, b, c, etc.” in order to avoid problems due to updates). A reference such as “Shen (1937 = U. arcuata)” means that what Shen referred to as U. arcuata was actually the species on whose page the reference occurs.

Uca Species

Synonymy

The following is a list of invalid or synonymous species names that have been applied to fiddler crabs, along with the valid species name. Most of the synonymies are taken from Crane (1975). For more details see fiddler crab systematics.