Austruca iranica
Iranian Fiddler Crab
Type Description
Uca annulipes iranica
Pretzmann, G. (1971) Ergebnisse einiger Sammelreisen nach Vorderasien. 2. Teil: Marine Brachyura. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 75:477–487.
Information
Taxonomy
Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Gelasimini → Genus Austruca → Subgenus Austruca
Common Names
English: Iranian Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology )
Austruca (Austruca) iranica , Austruca iranica , Uca (Austruca) iranica , Uca annulipes iranica , Uca iranica , Uca lactea iranica
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 9.1 mm ± 2.77 (sd), 95% range: 3.6–14.5 mm (Data )
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: Kuwait to Pakistan, northeastern United Arab Emirates
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: Naderloo et al. (2010) ; Naderloo & Türkay (2012) ; Naderloo et al. (2013) ; Naderloo et al. (2015) ; Saher et al. (2014) ; Shih et al. (2009)
Associated Field Guides
Northern Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman
Pakistan
Southern Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman
West Coast of India
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF
References
Alcock (1900) ,
Al-Ghais & Cooper (1996) ,
Al-Khayat (1996) ,
Al-Musawi & Wagner (2012) ,
Al-Nafisi et al. (2009) ,
Apel & Türkay (1999) ,
Baakdah (2018) ,
Beleem et al. (2019) ,
Collins et al. (1984) ,
El-Sayed et al. (2016) ,
Ghotbeddin et al. (2011) ,
Hornby (1997) ,
Jones & Clayton (1983) ,
Keeratipattarakarn et al. (2018) ,
Keeratipattarakarn et al. (2020) ,
Maccagno (1928) ,
Mokhlesi et al. (2011) ,
Mokhtari et al. (2008) ,
Murniati & Pratiwi (2015) ,
Naderloo (2017) ,
Naderloo et al. (2015) ,
Naderloo et al. (2016) ,
Naderloo & Türkay (2012) ,
Naderloo et al. (2010) ,
Naderloo et al. (2013) ,
Nobili (1906) ,
Odhano et al. (2015) ,
Pretzmann (1971) ,
Rosenberg (2019) ,
Rosenberg (2020) ,
Saher et al. (2017) ,
Saher et al. (2014) ,
Shih et al. (2018) ,
Shih et al. (2010) ,
Shih et al. (2016) ,
Shih et al. (2019) ,
Shih & Poupin (2020) ,
Shih et al. (2022) ,
Tina et al. (2016) ,
Tina et al. (2017) ,
Tina et al. (2018) ,
Tina et al. (2018) ,
Tina et al. (2018) ,
Trivedi et al. (2018) ,
Trivedi & Vachhrajani (2017)