Minuca mordax
Biting Fiddler Crab
Type Description
Gelasimus mordax Smith, S.I. (1870) Notes on American Crustacea. No. 1. Ocypodoidea. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science 2:113–176.
Taxonomy
Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Minucini → Genus Minuca Common Names
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology )
Gelasimus mordax Minuca mordax Uca (Minuca) [minax] mordax Uca (Minuca) mordax Uca mordax Size
Large Carapace Breadth: 19.8 mm ± 5.54 (sd), 95% range: 8.9–30.7 mm (Data )
Geographic Range
Western Atlantic Realm: Belize to Brazil
Purple fiddler crabs iNaturalist ; yellow circles with a question mark
Range map data derived from: Thurman et al. (2013)
Associated Field Guides
Atlantic Coast of Central America Atlantic Coast of Colombia and Venezuela Brazil Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Trinidad and Tobago External Links
Encyclopedia of Life Wikipedia iNaturalist NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank GBIF
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Albrecht & von Hagen (1981) ,
Almeida & Coelho (2008) ,
Altevogt (1969) ,
Amouroux & Tavares (2005) ,
Andersen et al. (1990) ,
Aschenbroich et al. (2016) ,
Balss (1922) ,
Barnwell (1963) ,
Barnwell (1966) ,
Barnwell (1968) ,
Barros & Pimentel (2001) ,
Beinlich & von Hagen (2006) ,
Benedict (1892) ,
Boone (1929) ,
Bott (1954) ,
Bott (1973) ,
Buitendijk (1950) ,
Burggren & McMahon (1988) ,
Castiglioni et al. (2010) ,
Chace & Hobbs (1969) ,
Coelho (1963/1964) ,
Coelho (1967) ,
Coelho (1994/1995) ,
Coelho et al. (2008) ,
Coelho & Coelho-Filho (1993) ,
Coelho & Ramos (1972) ,
Coelho & Ramos-Porto (1980) ,
Conde & Díaz (1985) ,
Crane (1941) ,
Crane (1943) ,
Crane (1943) ,
Crane (1943) ,
Crane (1944) ,
Crane (1957) ,
Crane (1966) ,
Crane (1975) ,
Fausto-Filho (1978) ,
Fimpel (1975) ,
Finol & Croghan (1983) ,
Fontaine & Barnwell (1988) ,
Gerlach (1958) ,
Guinot (1979) ,
Holthuis (1959) ,
Holthuis (1967) ,
Jones (1968) ,
Juarrero de Varona & Ortiz (2003) ,
Kingsley (1880) ,
Landstorfer & Schubart (2010) ,
Low & Ng (2012) ,
Lucu (1990) ,
Maccagno (1928) ,
Manning & Holthuis (1981) ,
Masunari et al. (2020) ,
Nabout et al. (2010) ,
Ng et al. (2008) ,
Oliveira (1939) ,
Ortmann (1897) ,
Pachelle et al. (2016) ,
Palmer (1973) ,
Pearse (1916) ,
Powers (1977) ,
Prieto et al. (2004) ,
Rathbun (1897) ,
Rathbun (1900) ,
Rathbun (1900) ,
Rathbun (1902) ,
Rathbun (1918) ,
Rathbun (1933) ,
Rosenberg (2000) ,
Rosenberg (2001) ,
Rosenberg (2002) ,
Rosenberg (2019) ,
Rosenberg (2020) ,
Salmon (1967) ,
Salmon & Zucker (1988) ,
Shih et al. (2016) ,
Smith (1869) ,
Smith (1870) ,
Streets (1872) ,
Thurman (1979) ,
Thurman et al. (2007) ,
van Delft (1968) ,
Vanhöffen (1916) ,
Vélez (1967) ,
von Hagen (1967) ,
von Hagen (1968) ,
von Hagen (1970) ,
von Hagen (1970) ,
von Hagen (1970) ,
von Hagen (1975) ,
von Hagen (1976) ,
von Hagen (1980) ,
von Hagen (1987) ,
Young (1900)
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.
