Minuca brevifrons
Narrow-fronted Fiddler Crab
Type Description
Gelasimus brevifrons Stimpson, W. (1860) Notes on North American Crustacea, in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. No. II. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 7:176–246.
Taxonomy
Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Minucini → Genus Minuca Common Names
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology )
Gelasimus brevifrons Minuca brevifrons Uca (Gelasimus) brevifrons Uca (Minuca) [minax] brevifrons Uca (Minuca) brevifrons Uca brevifrons Uca brevifrons var. delicata Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 23.1 mm ± 3.43 (sd), 95% range: 16.4–29.8 mm (Data )
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: Mexico to northern Colombia
Purple fiddler crabs iNaturalist ; yellow circles with a question mark
Range map data derived from: Brusca (1980) ; Crane (1975)
Associated Field Guides
Pacific Coast of Guatemala Pacific Coast of Mexico Pacific Coasts of Colombia, Ecuador, and Northern Peru Pacific Coasts of Costa Rica and Panama Pacific Coasts of El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua External Links
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Altevogt (1957) ,
Andersen et al. (1990) ,
Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985) ,
Beinlich & von Hagen (2006) ,
Bott (1954) ,
Bott (1973) ,
Brusca (1973) ,
Brusca (1980) ,
Buitendijk (1950) ,
Crane (1941) ,
Crane (1943) ,
Crane (1943) ,
Crane (1947) ,
Crane (1975) ,
García-Madrigal et al. (2022) ,
Garth (1948) ,
Garth (1960) ,
Hendrickx (1993) ,
Hendrickx (1995) ,
Hendrickx (1995) ,
Hendrickx (2005) ,
Holmes (1900) ,
Holmes (1904) ,
Holthuis (1954) ,
Holthuis (1954) ,
Invemar et al. (2006) ,
Kingsley (1880) ,
Landstorfer & Schubart (2010) ,
Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007) ,
Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992) ,
Lockington (1877) ,
Maccagno (1928) ,
McMahon & Burggren (1988) ,
Ng et al. (2008) ,
Nobili (1897) ,
Oliveira (1939) ,
Ortmann (1897) ,
Pesta (1931) ,
Ramos-Veliz et al. (2022) ,
Rathbun (1911) ,
Rathbun (1918) ,
Rivera-Velázquez & Peralta-Meixueiro (2020) ,
Rosenberg (2000) ,
Rosenberg (2001) ,
Rosenberg (2002) ,
Rosenberg (2019) ,
Rosenberg (2020) ,
Shih et al. (2016) ,
Smith (1870) ,
Stimpson (1860) ,
Thurman (1979) ,
Thurman et al. (2025) ,
von Hagen (1968) ,
von Hagen (1970) ,
von Prahl (1986) ,
Young (1900)
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.
