Cranuca inversa

Information

Taxonomy

Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Gelasimini → Genus Cranuca

Common Names

English: Inversed Fiddler Crab

Malagasy: Cava tangena

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Austruca inversa, Cranuca inversa, Gelasimus inversus, Gelasimus smithii, Uca (Amphiuca) inversa, Uca (Amphiuca) inversa inversa, Uca (Celuca) inversa inversa, Uca (Cranuca) inversa, Uca (Minuca) inversa, Uca inversa, Uca inversa inversa, Uca inversus, Uca universa

Size

Medium Carapace Breadth: 18.0 mm ± 5.06 (sd), 95% range: 8.0–27.9 mm (Data)

Geographic Range

Indo-West Pacific Realm: east African coast, from South Africa to the Red Sea to the mouth of the Persian Gulf; Madagascar

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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: Apel & Türkay (1999); Crane (1975); Naderloo & Türkay (2012); Poupin et al. (2018); Price et al. (1987)

Associated Field Guides

Eastern Africa

Northern Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman

Red Sea to southern Oman

Southern Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman

External Links

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NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank

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References

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