Leptuca leptodactyla
Thin-fingered Fiddler Crab
Type Description
Uca leptodactyla Rathbun, M.J. (1898) [Type description of Uca leptodactyla ] in The Northrop collection of Crustacea from the Bahamas; W. M. Rankin, pp. 225-258. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 11(12):227–228.
Taxonomy
Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Minucini → Genus Leptuca Common Names
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology )
Gelasimus leptodactylus Leptuca leptodactyla Uca (Celuca) [leptodactyla] leptodactyla Uca (Leptuca) leptodactyla Uca (Leptuca) leptodactylus Uca (Minuca) leptodactyla Uca (Minuca) leptodactylus Uca leptodactyla Uca leptodactylus Uca leptostyla Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 10.6 mm ± 1.06 (sd), 95% range: 8.5–12.7 mm (Data )
Geographic Range
Western Atlantic Realm: Caribbean, Venezuela to Brazil, eastern Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico), southeastern Florida (USA)
Purple fiddler crabs iNaturalist ; yellow circles with a question mark
Range map data derived from: Barnwell & Thurman (1984) ; Barnwell (1986) ; Crane (1975) ; Thurman (1987) ; Thurman et al. (2010) ; Thurman et al. (2013)
Associated Field Guides
Atlantic Coast of Central America Atlantic Coast of Colombia and Venezuela Brazil Caribbean Islands Cuba Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Trinidad and Tobago South Coast of Florida, USA The Bahamas External Links
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Almeida & Coelho (2008) ,
Altevogt (1957) ,
Aveline (1980) ,
Beinlich & von Hagen (2006) ,
Bento et al. (2007) ,
Bott (1954) ,
Bott (1973) ,
Burgers (1958) ,
Calado et al. (1998) ,
Cardoso & Negreiros-Fransozo (2004) ,
Castiglioni et al. (2010) ,
Chace & Hobbs (1969) ,
Coelho (1963/1964) ,
Coelho (1967) ,
Coelho (1971) ,
Coelho (1994/1995) ,
Coelho et al. (2008) ,
Coelho & Coelho-Filho (1993) ,
Coelho & Ramos (1972) ,
Coelho & Ramos-Porto (1980) ,
Correia & Guimarães (2016) ,
Crane (1941) ,
Crane (1957) ,
Crane (1975) ,
Curran & Martin (2003) ,
Dansereau (1947) ,
Fausto-Filho (1978) ,
Feest (1969) ,
Felder et al. (2009) ,
Fimpel (1975) ,
Gerlach (1958) ,
Gerlach (1958) ,
Gilchrist (1988) ,
Greenspan (1975) ,
Guérin-Méneville (?) ,
Guinot (1979) ,
Hartnoll (1988) ,
Hyatt (1973) ,
Hyatt (1975) ,
Juarrero de Varona & Ortiz (2003) ,
Kingsley (1880) ,
Laurenzano & Schubart (2017) ,
Luederwaldt (1919) ,
Luederwaldt (1919) ,
Luederwaldt (1929) ,
Maccagno (1928) ,
Masunari et al. (2020) ,
Matthews (1930) ,
McFadden & Thurman (2003) ,
Miller (1961) ,
Nabout et al. (2010) ,
Negromonte et al. (2012) ,
Ng et al. (2008) ,
Nobili (1899) ,
Oliveira (1939) ,
Oliveira (1939) ,
Oliveira (1939) ,
Ono (1965) ,
Pachelle et al. (2016) ,
Powers (1975) ,
Powers (1977) ,
Powers & Bliss (1983) ,
Powers & Cole (1976) ,
Ramos-Porto et al. (1978) ,
Rankin (1898) ,
Rathbun (1898) ,
Rathbun (1900) ,
Rathbun (1902) ,
Rathbun (1918) ,
Rathbun (1924) ,
Rathbun (1933) ,
Rodriguez (1959) ,
Rosenberg (2000) ,
Rosenberg (2001) ,
Rosenberg (2002) ,
Rosenberg (2014) ,
Rosenberg (2019) ,
Rosenberg (2020) ,
Salmon (1967) ,
Salmon & Atsaides (1968) ,
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Thurman (1979) ,
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Utrera-López & Capistrán-Barradas (2013) ,
Vélez (1967) ,
Vernberg & Vernberg (1964) ,
von Hagen (1962) ,
von Hagen (1967) ,
von Hagen (1967) ,
von Hagen (1968) ,
von Hagen (1970) ,
von Hagen (1970) ,
von Hagen (1975) ,
von Hagen (1980) ,
von Hagen (1987) ,
Warner (1969) ,
Weis (1977) ,
Welsh (1955) ,
Zucker (1973) ,
Zucker (1974)
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.
