Minuca rapax

Information

Taxonomy

Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Minucini → Genus Minuca

Common Names

English: Mudflat Fiddler Crab

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Gelasimus rapax, Minuca rapax, Uca (Minuca) [galapagensis] rapax rapax, Uca (Minuca) [galapaguensis] rapax rapax, Uca (Minuca) brasiliensis, Uca (Minuca) rapax, Uca (Minuca) salsisitus, Uca pugnax brasiliensis, Uca pugnax rapax, Uca pugnax var. brasiliensis, Uca rapax, Uca rapax rapax, Uca repax, Uca ripax, Uca salsisitus

Size

Medium Carapace Breadth: 13.6 mm ± 4.84 (sd), 95% range: 4.2–23.1 mm (Data)

Geographic Range

Western Atlantic Realm: southeastern Mexico to Brazil; USA (Florida); throughout Caribbean islands

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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. (2018)

Associated Field Guides

Atlantic Coast of Central America

Atlantic Coast of Colombia and Venezuela

Brazil

Caribbean Islands

Cuba

East Coast of Florida, USA

Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Trinidad and Tobago

South Coast of Florida, USA

Southeastern Gulf of Mexico

Southwestern Gulf of Mexico

The Bahamas

West Coast of Florida, USA

External Links

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NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank

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