Leptuca spinicarpa
Spiny-wristed Fiddler Crab
Type Description
Uca spinicarpa Rathbun, M.J. (1900) Synopses of North-American invertebrates. XI. The Catometopous or Grapsoid crabs of North America. American Naturalist 34(403):583–592.
Taxonomy
Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Minucini → Genus Leptuca Common Names
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology )
Gelasimus tetragonon var. spinicarpa Leptuca spinicarpa Uca (Celuca) [crenulata] speciosa spinicarpa Uca (Leptuca) spinicarpa Uca (Leptuca) spinicarpus Uca (Minuca) spinicarpa Uca spinicarpa Uca spinicarpus Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 16.4 mm ± 3.93 (sd), 95% range: 8.7–24.1 mm (Data )
Geographic Range
Western Atlantic Realm: USA (northwestern Florida) through Mexico
Purple fiddler crabs iNaturalist ; yellow circles with a question mark
Range map data derived from: Hopkins & Thurman (2010) ; Romero-Rodríguez et al. (2017)
Associated Field Guides
Northern Gulf of Mexico (USA) Southeastern Gulf of Mexico Southwestern Gulf of Mexico Texas, USA External Links
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Balbort & Thurman (1997) ,
Barnwell (1963) ,
Beinlich & von Hagen (2006) ,
Bennett et al. (1957) ,
Bott (1954) ,
Brown (1961) ,
Chace & Hobbs (1969) ,
Crane (1944) ,
Crane (1975) ,
del Castillo et al. (2015) ,
Feest (1969) ,
Felder et al. (2009) ,
Fingerman (1956) ,
Fingerman (1957) ,
Fingerman (1957) ,
Fingerman (1959) ,
Fingerman et al. (1958) ,
Fotheringham & Brunenmeister (1975) ,
Guillén-Hernández et al. (2008) ,
Guillen-Hernández et al. (2013) ,
Heard (1976) ,
Heard (1977) ,
Heard (1982) ,
Hedgecock et al. (1982) ,
Juarrero de Varona & Ortiz (2003) ,
Nabout et al. (2010) ,
Ng et al. (2008) ,
Oliveira (1939) ,
Palmer (1973) ,
Pérez-Mozqueda et al. (2014) ,
Powell (1962) ,
Powers (1977) ,
Rathbun (1900) ,
Rathbun (1900) ,
Rathbun (1918) ,
Raz-Guzman & Sanchez (1992) ,
Romero-Rodríguez et al. (2017) ,
Rosenberg (2000) ,
Rosenberg (2001) ,
Rosenberg (2002) ,
Rosenberg (2013) ,
Rosenberg (2019) ,
Rosenberg (2020) ,
Salmon & Atsaides (1968) ,
Salmon & Atsaides (1968) ,
Salmon et al. (1979) ,
Salmon & Horch (1972) ,
Shih et al. (2016) ,
Thurman (1979) ,
Thurman (1981) ,
Thurman (1987) ,
Thurman (1994) ,
Thurman (1996) ,
Thurman (2000) ,
Thurman (2001) ,
Thurman (2004) ,
Utrera-López & Capistrán-Barradas (2013) ,
van Delft (1968) ,
von Hagen (1970) ,
von Hagen (1980) ,
Weygoldt (1977) ,
Wunderlich et al. (2017)
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.
