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Uca heteropleura

Locations Where the Name has Been Applied

Purple fiddler crabs indicate locations where this name has been applied (whether correctly or incorrectly) in the scientific record; blue fiddler crabs surrounded by a dashed circle indicate the same but for larger, general regions; a skull and crossbones indicates locations where this name has been applied to a fossil; and red circles with an x indicate false or mistaken records from the scientific record.
Number of Uses of Name per Year

Publications Using this Name

Citation Where Applied to... Accepted Name Source of Accepted Note(s)
Rathbun (1918) text p. 376, 385; palte 161: figures 1-4 citation: Smith (1870) → Gelasimus heteropleurus Uca heteropleura Computed  
    citation: Ortmann (1897) → Uca platydactyla var. stylifera Uca stylifera Computed in part
    specimen: Gulf of Fonseca, La Unión, El Salvador Uca heteropleura Original  
 
Oliveira (1939) text p. 125   Uca heteropleura Original  
 
Crane (1941) text p. 149-150, 153-154, 156, 164-165, 167, 171-172; figure 4-5 citation: Smith (1870) → Gelasimus heteropleurus Uca heteropleura Computed  
    citation: Rathbun (1918) → Uca heteropleura Uca heteropleura Computed in part
    specimen: Golfito, Puntarenas, Costa Rica Uca heteropleura Original  
    specimen: Panama City, Panama Uca heteropleura Original  
    specimen: La Boca, Balboa, Panama City, Panama Uca heteropleura Original  
 
Crane (1947) text p. 89-90 location: Eastern Pacific Ocean Uca heteropleura Original  
 
Holthuis (1954) text p. 162 citation: Smith (1870) → Gelasimus heteropleurus Uca heteropleura Computed  
    citation: Rathbun (1918) → Uca heteropleura [Gulf of Fonseca, La Unión, El Salvador] Uca heteropleura Computed  
 
Crane (1957) text p. 71, 73, 78, 80 location: Panama Uca heteropleura Original  
    location: Ecuador Uca heteropleura Original  
    citation: Crane (1941) → Uca heteropleura Uca heteropleura Computed  
 
von Hagen (1962) text p. 640 citation: Crane (1941) → Uca heteropleura Uca heteropleura Computed  
 
von Hagen (1968) text p. 403-404, 407-409, 434-438, 442, 444, 447-448, 450, 454-456; figures 13-14 citation: Crane (1941) → Uca heteropleura Uca heteropleura Computed  
    citation: Smith (1870) → Gelasimus heteropleurus Uca heteropleura Computed  
    specimen: Peru Uca heteropleura Original  
 
von Hagen (1970) text p. 22, 28-29, 46, 48-53; figures 13b, 14c, 15d citation: von Hagen (1968) → Uca heteropleura Uca heteropleura Computed  
 
Pretzmann (1983) text p. 315 specimen: Puerto Pizarro, Tumbes Province, Tumbes Region, Peru [NHMW 4249] Uca heteropleura Original  
 
Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985) text p. 85A location: Río Lagarto, Puntarenas, Costa Rica Uca heteropleura Original  
 
Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992) text p. 63 location: Pacific coast of Colombia Uca heteropleura Original  
    citation: Crane (1975) → Uca (Uca) [major] heteropleura Uca heteropleura Computed  
    citation: von Prahl (1982) → Uca (Uca) heteropleura Uca heteropleura Computed  
    citation: von Prahl et al. (1990) TBD Computed  
    citation: von Prahl (1981) → Uca (Uca) major heteropleura Uca heteropleura Computed  
 
Hendrickx (1995) text p. 142 citation: Crane (1975) → Uca (Uca) [major] heteropleura Uca heteropleura Computed  
 
Hendrickx (1995) text p. 615 location: Eastern Pacific Ocean Uca heteropleura Original  
 
Levinton et al. (1996) text p. 126   Uca heteropleura Original shifts subgenus to genus in figure
 
Sturmbauer et al. (1996) text p. 10856   Uca heteropleura Original  
 
Rosenberg (2000) text p. 18, 23, 35, 37, 113, 118, 161, 173, 175, 177, 179, 181 citation: Crane (1975) → Uca (Uca) [major] heteropleura Uca heteropleura Computed  
    location: Base Naval Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, Panama Uca heteropleura Original  
    citation: Bott (1973) → Heteruca heteropleura Uca stylifera Computed  
 
Rosenberg (2001) text p. 842, 844, 849-850, 860, 866-867 citation: Crane (1975) → Uca (Uca) [major] heteropleura Uca heteropleura Computed  
    location: Base Naval Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, Panama Uca heteropleura Original  
    citation: Bott (1973) → Heteruca heteropleura Uca stylifera Computed  
 
Rosenberg (2002) text p. 162 citation: Rosenberg (2001) → Uca heteropleura Uca heteropleura Computed in part
    citation: Rosenberg (2000) → Uca heteropleura Uca heteropleura Computed in part
 
Invemar et al. (2006) text p. 135 location: Bahía Málaga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia Uca heteropleura Original  
 
Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007) text p. 234 location: Bahía Málaga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia Uca heteropleura Original  
    citation: Cenipacífico (1986) TBD Computed  
    citation: Cantera (1991) TBD Computed  
    citation: Rubio et al. (1988) TBD Computed  
    citation: Hendrickx (1995) → Uca heteropleura Uca heteropleura Computed  
 
Shih et al. (2016) text p. 148-149; Figure 6C location: Panama Uca heteropleura Original  
    citation: Smith (1870) → Gelasimus heteropleurus Uca heteropleura Computed  
 
Rosenberg (2020) text p. 370, 373; supplement 98 citation: Crane (1975) → Uca (Uca) [major] heteropleura Uca heteropleura Computed  
    citation: von Prahl (1982) → Uca (Uca) (Major) heteropleura Uca heteropleura Computed  
    location: El Salvador Uca heteropleura Original  
    location: Pacific coast of Honduras Uca heteropleura Original  
    location: Pacific coast of Nicaragua Uca heteropleura Original  
    location: Pacific coast of Costa Rica Uca heteropleura Original  
    location: Pacific coast of Panama Uca heteropleura Original  
    location: Pacific coast of Colombia Uca heteropleura Original  
    location: Ecuador Uca heteropleura Original  
    location: Peru Uca heteropleura Original  
 
Thurman et al. (2025) text p. 2-3, 5, 7, 11-13, 34, 36; Figure 2; Supplement p. 3 citation: von Hagen (1968) → Uca heteropleura Uca heteropleura Computed  
    specimen: Puerto Bolivar, El Oro, Ecuador [USNM 138577] Uca heteropleura Original  
    specimen: Salinas, Santa Elena, Ecuador [UNI P0240] Uca heteropleura Original  
    specimen: Posorja, Guayas, Ecuador [UNI 743] Uca heteropleura Original  
    specimen: Puntarenas, Costa Rica [AMNH_IZC 376846] Uca heteropleura Original  
    specimen: Puerto Pizarro, Tumbes Province, Tumbes Region, Peru [RMNH.CRUS.D23059] Uca heteropleura Original  
    specimen: San Clemente, Manabí, Ecuador [UNI 744] Uca heteropleura Original  
    specimen: San Jose de Chamanga, Esmeraldas, Ecuador [UNI 753] Uca heteropleura Original  
    specimen: San Jose de Chamanga, Esmeraldas, Ecuador [UNI 755] Uca heteropleura Original  
    specimen: Puerto Bolivar, El Oro, Ecuador [USNM 138550] Uca heteropleura Original