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Leptuca dorotheae

Dorothy's Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Uca dorotheae
von Hagen, H.-O. (1968) Studien an peruanischen Winkerkrabben (Uca). Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 95(2):395–468.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Leptuca
Common Names
English: Dorothy's Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Leptuca aff. dorotheae, Leptuca dorotheae, Minuca dorotheae, Uca (Celuca) dorotheae, Uca (Leptuca) dorotheae, Uca dorotheae
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 11.5 mm ± 1.09 (sd), 95% range: 9.3–13.6 mm (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: Costa Rica to northern Peru
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); Shih et al. (2016); von Prahl (1982)
Associated Field Guides
Pacific Coasts of Colombia, Ecuador, and Northern Peru
Pacific Coasts of Costa Rica and Panama
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
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References

Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Crane (1975), Fransen et al. (1997), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Moscoso (2012), Moscoso (2013), Ng et al. (2008), Pretzmann (1983), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016), Thurman et al. (2025), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1975), von Prahl (1982)