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Tubuca seismella

Shaking Fiddler Crab

Tubuca seismella

Type Description

Uca seismella
Crane, J. (1975) Fiddler Crabs of the World: Ocypodidae: Genus Uca. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus TubucaSubgenus Australuca
Common Names
English: Shaking Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Australuca seismella, Tubuca (Australuca) seismella, Tubuca seismella, Uca (Australuca) seismella, Uca seismella, Uca siesmella
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 10.9 mm ± 2.49 (sd), 95% range: 6.0–15.8 mm (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: Australia
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: George & Jones (1982); von Hagen & Jones (1989)
Associated Field Guides
Eastern Australia
New Guinea
Northern and Western Australia
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

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References

Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Booksmythe et al. (2008), Crane (1975), Davie (1982), George & Jones (1982), Jones & George (1982), Kinnear et al. (2009), Levinton et al. (1996), Morgan (1990), Murniati & Pratiwi (2015), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016), Sturmbauer et al. (1996), Vermeiren et al. (2015), Vermeiren & Sheaves (2014), Vermeiren & Sheaves (2014), von Hagen (1976), Wada (2020)