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Tubuca hirsutimanus

Hairy-handed Fiddler Crab

Tubuca hirsutimanus

Type Description

Uca hirsutimanus
George, R.W., and D.S. Jones (1982) A revision of the fiddler crabs of Australia (Ocypodinae: Uca). Record of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 14:1–99.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus TubucaSubgenus Australuca
Common Names
English: Hairy-handed Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Tubuca (Australuca) hirsutimanus, Tubuca hirsutimanus, Uca (Australuca) hirsutimanus, Uca hirsutimanus
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 11.5 mm ± 2.86 (sd), 95% range: 5.9–17.1 mm (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: northern and western Australia
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: George & Jones (1982); von Hagen & Jones (1989)
Associated Field Guides
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), Davie (1982), George & Jones (1982), Jones & George (1982), Kinnear et al. (2009), Morgan (1990), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016), Wada (2020)