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Minuca panema

Lesser Brazilian Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Uca panema
Coelho, P.A. (1972) Descrição preliminar de uma espécie nova de Uca de Pernambuco e Paraíba. P. 42 in Resumos do V Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia. São Paulo, Brasil.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Minuca
Common Names
English: Lesser Brazilian Fiddler Crab
Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 12.5 mm ± 5.81 (sd), 95% range: 1.1–23.9 mm (Data)
Geographic Range
Western Atlantic Realm: Trinidad and Tobago; Eastern Venezuela to Brazil
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: Thurman et al. (2023)
Associated Field Guides
Brazil
Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Trinidad and Tobago
External Links
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References

Albrecht & von Hagen (1981), Almeida & Coelho (2008), Amouroux & Tavares (2005), Aschenbroich et al. (2016), Benetti & Negreiros-Fransozo (2003), Castiglioni et al. (2010), Coelho (1994/1995), Coelho et al. (2008), Coelho & Coelho-Filho (1993), Crane (1957), Crane (1975), de Sousa et al. (2015), Fransen et al. (1997), Gerlach (1958), Gronovius (1764), Jonston (1650), Latreille (1817), Latreille (1828), Latreille (1829), Lemos de Castro (1962), Lira et al. (2006), Marcgrave (1648), Masunari et al. (2020), Milne Edwards (1837), Milne Edwards (1837), Oliveira (1939), Pachelle et al. (2016), Powers (1977), Rathbun (1900), Rosenberg (2020), Sachs (1665), Salmon & Atsaides (1968), Salmon & Zucker (1988), Shih et al. (2016), Thurman (1979), Torres (2004), Vale et al. (2015), von Hagen (1967), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1970), von Martens (1869)