Leptuca crenulata

Information

Taxonomy

Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Minucini → Genus Leptuca

Common Names

English: California Fiddler Crab, Crenulated Fiddler Crab, Mexican Fiddler Crab, Notched Fiddler Crab, Southern California Fiddler Crab

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Gelasimus crenulatus, Gelasimus gracilis, Leptuca crenulata, Uca (Celuca) [crenulata] crenulata crenulata, Uca (Celuca) crenulata crenulata, Uca (Leptuca) crenulata, Uca (Leptuca) crenulata crenulata, Uca (Minuca) crenulata, Uca crenulata, Uca crenulata crenulata, Uca gracilis

Size

Small Carapace Breadth: 10.0 mm ± 2.21 (sd), 95% range: 5.7–14.4 mm (Data)

Geographic Range

Eastern Pacific Realm: southern California, USA (Santa Barbara) to Manzanillo, Mexico

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: Brusca (1980); Crane (1975); Garth & Abbott (1980); Green (1980); Hendrickx (1984); Hubbard & Dugan (1989); Leija-Tristán et al. (1990); Naiditch et al. (2001); Neuffer et al. (2001)

Associated Field Guides

Pacific Coast of Mexico

Southern California, USA

External Links

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References

Allen (1976), Alvarez del Castillo C. et al. (1992), Arzola-González et al. (2010), Baldwin & Kirschener (1976), Baldwin & Kirschener (1976), Barnwell (1976), Bayley (1972), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bertics & Ziebis (2009), Bliss (1968), Bonfil et al. (1992), Bott (1954), Bowlus & Somero (1979), Brusca (1973), Brusca (1980), Crane (1941), Crane (1947), Crane (1975), Crawford et al. (1989), DeCoursey (1983), deRivera (2000), Dubofsky-Porter et al. (2017), Edney (1961), Faxon (1895), Félix-Pico et al. (2003), García-Madrigal et al. (2022), Garth (1960), Garth & Abbott (1980), Gordillo et al. (2014), Green (1980), Green et al. (1959), Greenaway (1988), Gross (1955), Gross (1957), Gross (1961), Gross (1964), Headstrom (1979), Heard (1976), Hendrickx (1979), Hendrickx (1984), Hendrickx (1993), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (2005), Hinton (1969), Holmes (1900), Holmes (1904), Honegger (1973), Honegger (1973), Honegger (1976), Hubbard & Dugan (1989), Jansen (1970), Johnson & Snook (1927), Jones (1941), Kaiser & Lehmann (1975), Kingsley (1880), Kinne (1963), Lehmann (1976), Lehmann et al. (1974), Leija-Tristán et al. (1990), Lockington (1877), Lockwood (1962), Lockwood (1967), Maccagno (1928), Mantel & Farmer (1983), McDermott & Pope (2010), McFadden & Thurman (2003), Nabout et al. (2010), Naiditch et al. (2001), Neuffer et al. (2001), Ng et al. (2008), Nicou (1959), Nicou (1960), Nobili (1899), Nobili (1901), Oliveira (1939), Ortmann (1897), Potts & Parry (1964), Powers (1975), Powers & Cole (1976), Przibram (1905), Rathbun (1893), Rathbun (1899), Rathbun (1900), Rathbun (1904), Rathbun (1918), Rathbun (1923), Rathbun (1924), Ricketts et al. (1968), Rivera-Velázquez & Peralta-Meixueiro (2020), Robertson (1960), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2018), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Sarkisian (1957), Scatolini & Zedler (1996), Schmitt (1921), Shih et al. (2016), Sullivan & Tentori (1981), Thurman (1979), Thurman (2004), Tseng et al. (2020), Vernberg & Vernberg (1970), von Hagen (1968), Wanson et al. (1984), Wicksten (2008), Wicksten (2012), Wolvekamp & Waterman (1960), Young (1900), Zucker (1973)