Tubuca flammula
Flame-backed Fiddler Crab
Type Description
Uca flammula
Crane, J. (1975) Fiddler Crabs of the World: Ocypodidae: Genus Uca . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Information
Taxonomy
Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Gelasimini → Genus Tubuca → Subgenus Tubuca
Common Names
English: Flame-backed Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology )
Tubuca (Tubuca) flammula , Tubuca flammula , Tubuca flamula , Uca (Deltuca) [coarctata] coarctata flammula , Uca (Deltuca) coarctata flammula , Uca (Tubuca) flammula , Uca coarctata flammula , Uca flammula
Size
Large Carapace Breadth: 19.8 mm ± 7.09 (sd), 95% range: 5.9–33.7 mm (Data )
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: western and northern Australia; Papua (Indonesia)
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) ; Fransen et al. (1997) ; George & Jones (1982) ; von Hagen & Jones (1989)
Associated Field Guides
New Guinea
Northern and Western Australia
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
GBIF
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References
Beinlich & von Hagen (2006) ,
Booksmythe et al. (2008) ,
Chertoprud et al. (2012) ,
Crane (1975) ,
Davie (1982) ,
Fransen et al. (1997) ,
George & Jones (1982) ,
Haswell (1882) ,
Jones & George (1982) ,
Kinnear et al. (2009) ,
Macnae (1966) ,
Macnae (1968) ,
Morgan (1990) ,
Nabout et al. (2010) ,
Ng et al. (2008) ,
Nobbs (2003) ,
Pratiwi (2007) ,
Pratiwi (2010) ,
Rathbun (1914) ,
Rathbun (1924) ,
Ribeiro et al. (2003) ,
Rosenberg (2000) ,
Rosenberg (2001) ,
Rosenberg (2002) ,
Rosenberg (2014) ,
Rosenberg (2019) ,
Rosenberg (2020) ,
Saville-Kent (1897) ,
Shih et al. (2016) ,
Shih et al. (2010) ,
Wada (2020)