Leptuca oerstedi
Aqua Fiddler Crab
Type Description
Uca oerstedi
Rathbun, M.J. (1904) Descriptions of three new species of American crabs. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 17:161–162.
Information
Taxonomy
Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Minucini → Genus Leptuca
Common Names
English: Aqua Fiddler Crab, Œrsted's Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology )
Leptuca oerstedi , Uca (Celuca) oerstedi , Uca (Leptuca) oerstedi , Uca (Minuca) oerstedi , Uca oerstedi
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 8.9 mm ± 1.40 (sd), 95% range: 6.1–11.6 mm (Data )
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: El Salvador to Panama
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: Crane (1975)
Associated Field Guides
Pacific Coasts of Costa Rica and Panama
Pacific Coasts of El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
GBIF
References
Abele & Kim (1989) ,
Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985) ,
Beinlich & von Hagen (2006) ,
Bott (1954) ,
Bott (1973) ,
Crane (1941) ,
Crane (1943) ,
Crane (1944) ,
Crane (1947) ,
Crane (1957) ,
Crane (1966) ,
Crane (1975) ,
Green (1961) ,
Hendrickx (1995) ,
Hendrickx (1995) ,
Invemar et al. (2006) ,
Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007) ,
Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992) ,
Neiman & Barnwell (1997) ,
Ng et al. (2008) ,
Oliveira (1939) ,
Portell et al. (2012) ,
Rathbun (1904) ,
Rathbun (1918) ,
Rosenberg (2000) ,
Rosenberg (2001) ,
Rosenberg (2002) ,
Rosenberg (2019) ,
Rosenberg (2020) ,
Shih et al. (2016) ,
Thurman et al. (2025)