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Leptuca helleri

Heller's Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Uca helleri
Rathbun, M.J. (1902) Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos expedition 1898-1899. VIII. Brachyura and Macrura. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 4:275–292.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Leptuca
Common Names
English: Heller's Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Leptuca helleri, Uca (Celuca) helleri, Uca (Leptuca) helleri, Uca helleri
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 9.9 mm ± 1.79 (sd), 95% range: 6.4–13.4 mm (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: Galápagos Islands
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)
Associated Field Guides
Galápagos Islands
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
GBIF

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References

Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Boone (1927), Bott (1958), Crane (1941), Crane (1975), Eibl-Eibesfeldt & Sielmann (1964), Garth (1946), Hendrickx (1995), Kameya et al. (1998), Moscoso (2012), Moscoso (2013), Ng et al. (2008), Peck (1994), Rathbun (1902), Rathbun (1911), Rathbun (1918), Rathbun (1926), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016), Sivertsen (1934), Thurman et al. (2025), von Hagen (1968)