Tubuca coarctata

Information

Taxonomy

Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Gelasimini → Genus Tubuca → Subgenus Tubuca

Common Names

English: Compressed Fiddler Crab, Orange-clawed Fiddler Crab

Japanese: リュウキュウシオマネキ

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Gelasimus coarctata, Gelasimus coarctatus, Gelasimus thomsoni, Gelassimus Thompsoni, Mesuca (Mesuca) coarctata, Tubuca (Tubuca) coarctata, Tubuca coarctata, Uca (Deltuca) [coarctata] coarctata coarctata, Uca (Deltuca) coarctata, Uca (Deltuca) coarctata coarctata, Uca (Tubuca) coarctata, Uca coacrtata, Uca coarciata, Uca coarctata, Uca coarctata coarctata, Uca coarctate, Uca coartatus, Uca corctata, Uca ischnodactyla, Uca ischnodactylus, Uca mearnsi, Uca rathbunae, Uca rathbuni, Uca thomsoni

Size

Large Carapace Breadth: 21.4 mm ± 7.36 (sd), 95% range: 6.9–35.8 mm (Data)

Geographic Range

Indo-West Pacific Realm: Ryukus Islands (Japan), Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia (Queensland), New Caledonia, Fiji

Download PNG line map of ranges. Download PNG line map of point locations.

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: Crane (1975); Fukui et al. (1989); Geist et al. (2012); George & Jones (1982); Huang et al. (1989); Michie et al. (2015); Poupin2010; Shih et al. (2016); von Hagen & Jones (1989)

Associated Field Guides

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Borneo

Central Indonesia

Central Melanesia

Eastern Australia

Fiji and Polynesia

New Guinea

Philippines

Ryuku Islands, Japan

Sumatra

Taiwan

Western Micronesia

External Links

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NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank

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References

Adirwiryono et al. (1984), Altevogt (1957), Altevogt (1959), Altevogt & von Hagen (1964), Aoki et al. (2009), Barnes (2010), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1973), Bouvier (1940), Crane (1957), Crane (1966), Crane (1967), Crane (1975), Davie (1982), De Man (1891), De Man (1892), De Man (1902), Dewiyanti et al. (2018), Estampador (1937), Estampador (1959), Fabricius (1775), Fabricius (1781), Fabricius (1798), Fabricius (1798), Fukui et al. (1989), Geist et al. (2012), George & Jones (1982), Gordon (1934), Grant & McCulloch (1906), Gronovius (1764), Haswell (1882), Heller (1863), Herbst (1782), Ho et al. (1993), Jones & George (1982), Juncker & Poupin (2009), Kawaida et al. (2017), Kingsley (1880), Linnaeus (1766), Maccagno (1928), Macnae (1966), Macnae (1967), Marbun et al. (2019), Michie et al. (2015), Milne Edwards (1852), Milne Edwards (1854), Milne-Edwards (1873), Miyake (1938), Murniati (2009), Murniati (2010), Murniati & Pratiwi (2015), Nemec (1939), Ng & Davie (2002), Ng et al. (2008), Ng & Richer de Forges (2007), Ng et al. (2017), Ng et al. (2001), Nobili (1899), Nobili (1899), Oliveira (1939), Olivier (1811), Omori & Holthuis (2000), Omori & Holthuis (2005), Ortmann (1894), Ortmann (1897), Pearse (1912), Pearse (1912), Pearse (1914), Pesta (1918), Petiver (1704), Poupin (2010), Pratiwi (2006), Pratiwi (2007), Pratiwi (2007), Pratiwi (2009), Pratiwi (2010), Pratiwi & Rahmat (2015), Pratiwi & Widyastuti (2013), Pratiwi & Widyastuti (2015), Pratiwi et al. (2018), Rathbun (1910), Rathbun (1913), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2014), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Sakai (1939), Sakai (1974), Sakai (1976), Salmon et al. (1978), Sastranegara et al. (2003), Shih et al. (2008), Shih et al. (2010), Shih et al. (2016), Shih et al. (2010), Slatyer et al. (2008), Stimpson (1858), Stimpson (1907), Stossich (1880), Tan & Ng (1994), Tesch (1918), Tweedie (1937), Tweedie (1950), Vermeiren et al. (2015), Vermeiren & Sheaves (2014), Vermeiren & Sheaves (2014), von Hagen (1970), Wada (2019), Wada (2020), Ward (1941), Yoshigou (2001)