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Tubuca acuta

Acute Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Gelasimus acutus
Stimpson, W. (1858) Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum quæ in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Pars. V. Crustacea Ocypodoidea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 10:93–110.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus TubucaSubgenus Angustuca
Common Names
English: Acute Fiddler Crab
Japanese: クレーンシオマネキ
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Gelasimus acuto, Gelasimus acutus, Tubuca (Angustuca) acuta, Tubuca acuta, Uca (Deltuca) [acuta] acuta acuta, Uca (Deltuca) acuta, Uca (Tubuca) acuta, Uca acuata, Uca acuta, Uca acuta acuta, Uca acuteus, Uca acutus
Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 17.9 mm ± 3.14 (sd), 95% range: 11.7–24.1 mm (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: northern Vietnam to China
Purple fiddler crabs indicate locations where this species is found according to the scientific record; blue fiddler crabs surrounded by a dashed circle indicate the same but for larger, general regions; green fiddler crabs indicate “research grade” observations imported from iNaturalist; yellow circles with a question mark indicate questionable records of this species from the scientific record; and red circles with an x indicate false or mistaken records from the scientific record.
Range map data derived from: Bairagi & Misra (1988); Crane (1975); Jones & Morton (1994); Shih et al. (2010); Shih et al. (2016); Tue et al. (2012)
Associated Field Guides
Eastern Malay Peninsula and Mainland Southeast Asia
Mainland China and Hainan
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
GBIF

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References

Alcock (1900), Bairagi & Misra (1988), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1973), Chertoprud et al. (2012), Chhapgar (1957), Chopra & Das (1937), Crane (1975), De Man (1887), De Man (1887-1888), De Man (1891), De Man (1892), De Man (1895), De Man (1902), Deb (1998), Deb (1999), Estampador (1937), Estampador (1959), Gee (1925), Gordon (1931), Kellogg (1928), Kingsley (1880), Lanchester (1900), Maccagno (1928), Ng & Davie (2002), Ng et al. (2008), Ng et al. (2017), Nhưộng (2003), Nobili (1901), Nobili (1903), Oliveira (1939), Rathbun (1909), Rathbun (1910), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Salomon & Graszynski (1982), Serène (1973), Shen (1937), Shen (1940), Shen (1940), Shih et al. (2018), Shih et al. (2016), Shih et al. (2010), Shih et al. (2022), Stimpson (1858), Stimpson (1907), Suvatti (1938), Targioni Tozzetti (1877), Tesch (1918), Trivedi et al. (2018), Tue et al. (2012), Tweedie (1937), Tweedie (1950), Wada (2019)