Tubuca bellator
Belligerent Fiddler Crab
Type Description
Gelasimus bellator White, A. (1847) Short descriptions of some new species of Crustacea in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15:84–86.
Taxonomy
Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Gelasimini → Genus Tubuca → Subgenus Australuca Common Names
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology )
Austruca bellator Gelasimus bellator Gelasimus signatus var. angustifrons Tubuca (Australuca) bellator Tubuca bellator Uca (Australuca) bellator Uca (Australuca) bellator bellator Uca (Austruca) bellator bellator Uca (Uca) angustifrons Uca angustifrons Uca bellator Uca bellator bellator Uca forceps var. angustifrons Uca signata var. angustifrons Uca signatus var. angustifrons Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 14.7 mm ± 2.80 (sd), 95% range: 9.2–20.2 mm (Data )
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: Philippines, Borneo, northern Java
Purple fiddler crabs iNaturalist ; yellow circles with a question mark
Range map data derived from: Crane (1975)
Associated Field Guides
Borneo Central Indonesia Philippines External Links
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Adams & White (1848) ,
Agustianingsih (2006) ,
Altevogt (1955) ,
Altevogt (1955) ,
Altevogt (1957) ,
Barnes (2010) ,
Beinlich & von Hagen (2006) ,
Brösing (2010) ,
Clark & Presswell (2001) ,
Crane (1941) ,
Crane (1957) ,
Crane (1967) ,
Crane (1975) ,
Das (2001) ,
Das & Dev Roy (1989) ,
Edney (1960) ,
Edney (1961) ,
Estampador (1937) ,
Estampador (1959) ,
Feest (1969) ,
Fransen et al. (1997) ,
Geist et al. (2012) ,
Gordon (1934) ,
Greenspan (1975) ,
Hartnoll (1969) ,
Hyatt et al. (1979) ,
Juarrero de Varona & Ortiz (2003) ,
Kingsley (1880) ,
Krishnan (1992) ,
Macnae (1968) ,
Marshall & Orr (1960) ,
Milne Edwards (1852) ,
Milne Edwards (1854) ,
Murniati (2015) ,
Murniati & Pratiwi (2015) ,
Nauck (1880) ,
Ng et al. (2008) ,
Ortmann (1897) ,
Powers (1975) ,
Pratiwi (2006) ,
Pratiwi (2010) ,
Rosenberg (2000) ,
Rosenberg (2001) ,
Rosenberg (2002) ,
Rosenberg (2019) ,
Rosenberg (2020) ,
Sastranegara et al. (2003) ,
Serène (1973) ,
Shih et al. (2016) ,
Trivedi et al. (2018) ,
Tweedie (1950) ,
Tweedie (1954) ,
Verwey (1930) ,
von Hagen (1962) ,
Wada (2019) ,
Warner (1969) ,
White (1847) ,
White (1847) ,
White (1847)
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.
