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Uca intermedia

Intermediate Fiddler Crab

Uca intermedia

Type Description

Uca intermedia
von Prahl, H., and N. Toro (1985) Uca (Uca) intermedia (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) A new fiddler crab of the Pacific coast of Columbia. Zoologischer Anzeiger 215(5–6):274–278.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily UcinaeSupertribe UcitaeTribe UciniGenus UcaSubgenus Uca
Common Names
English: Intermediate Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Uca (Uca) intermedia, Uca intermedia
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 14.7 mm ± 0.00 (sd), 95% range: 14.7–14.7 mm (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: Panama and Columbia
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: Rosenberg (2001); von Prahl & Toro (1985)
Associated Field Guides
Pacific Coasts of Colombia, Ecuador, and Northern Peru
Pacific Coasts of Costa Rica and Panama
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

Photos

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Video

Male Uca intermedia waving
24 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Multiple male Uca intermedia waving
25 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Multiple male Uca intermedia waving
27 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Uca intermedia waving
1:54 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

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References

Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Domínguez Alonso (2008), Fransen et al. (1997), Hendrickx (1995), Invemar et al. (2006), Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Levinton et al. (1996), Ng et al. (2008), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016), Sturmbauer et al. (1996), Thurman et al. (2025), von Prahl & Toro (1985)