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Minuca osa

Osa Fiddler Crab

Minuca osa

Type Description

Uca osa
Landstorfer, R.B., and C.D. Schubart (2010) A phylogeny of Pacific fiddler crabs of the subgenus Minuca (Crustacea, Brachyura, Ocypodidae: Uca) with the description of a new species from a tropical gulf in Pacific Costa Rica. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 48(3):214–218.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Minuca
Common Names
English: Osa Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Minuca osa, Uca osa
Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 16.2 mm ± 3.55 (sd), 95% range: 9.3–23.2 mm (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: Costa Rica (Gulf of Dulce, Península de Osa) to Panama (Montijo Gulf)
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: Landstorfer & Schubart (2010)
Associated Field Guides
Cuba
East Coast of Florida, USA
Northern Gulf of Mexico (USA)
Pacific Coasts of Colombia, Ecuador, and Northern Peru
Pacific Coasts of Costa Rica and Panama
Pacific Coasts of El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua
South Coast of Florida, USA
Southeastern Gulf of Mexico
The Bahamas
West Coast of Florida, USA
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

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References

González (2024), Landstorfer & Schubart (2010), Naderloo et al. (2016), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016), Thurman et al. (2025)