Tubuca demani
Demanding Fiddler Crab
Type Description
Uca demani Ortmann, A.E. (1897) Carcinologische Studien. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abtheilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere 10(3):258–372.
Taxonomy
Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Gelasimini → Genus Tubuca → Subgenus Tubuca Common Names
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology )
Gelasimus demani Tubuca (Tubuca) demani Tubuca australiae Tubuca demani Uca (Deltuca) demani australiae Uca (Deltuca) demani demani Uca (Minuca) zanboangana Uca (Tubuca) australiae Uca (Tubuca) demani Uca (Uca) demani Uca australiae Uca demani Uca demani demani Uca zamboangana Uca zambocuga Size
Large Carapace Breadth: 23.0 mm ± 6.72 (sd), 95% range: 9.8–36.2 mm (Data )
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: southern Philippines, central Indonesia
Purple fiddler crabs iNaturalist ; yellow circles with a question mark
Range map data derived from: Barnes (2010) ; Crane (1975)
Associated Field Guides
Borneo Central Indonesia Philippines External Links
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Aprilyanto et al. (2017) ,
Aprilyanto et al. (2017) ,
Barnes (2010) ,
Beinlich & von Hagen (2006) ,
Crane (1957) ,
Crane (1966) ,
Crane (1975) ,
De Man (1891) ,
De Man (1892) ,
De Man (1895) ,
De Man (1902) ,
Estampador (1937) ,
Estampador (1959) ,
Fransen et al. (1997) ,
George & Jones (1982) ,
Michie et al. (2015) ,
Murniati (2015) ,
Murniati & Pratiwi (2015) ,
Ng et al. (2008) ,
Oliveira (1939) ,
Ortmann (1897) ,
Pratiwi (2009) ,
Pratiwi & Rahmat (2015) ,
Rathbun (1913) ,
Rosenberg (2000) ,
Rosenberg (2001) ,
Rosenberg (2002) ,
Rosenberg (2019) ,
Rosenberg (2020) ,
Sastranegara et al. (2003) ,
Serène (1973) ,
Shih et al. (2016) ,
Shih et al. (2010) ,
Tesch (1918) ,
Ward (1941)
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.
