Uca stylifera

Information

Taxonomy

Subfamily Ucinae → Supertribe Ucitae → Tribe Ucini → Genus Uca → Subgenus Uca

Common Names

English: Styled Fiddler Crab

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Gelasimus heterophthalmus, Gelasimus styliferus, Gelasius heterophthalmus, Uca (Gelasimus) stylifera, Uca (Uca) stylifera, Uca platydactyla var. stylifera, Uca stylifera

Size

Medium Carapace Breadth: 23.8 mm ± 1.67 (sd), 95% range: 20.6–27.1 mm (Data)

Geographic Range

Eastern Pacific Realm: El Salvador to northern Peru

Download PNG line map of ranges. Download PNG line map of point locations.

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: Crane (1975); von Prahl (1982)

Associated Field Guides

Pacific Coasts of Colombia, Ecuador, and Northern Peru

Pacific Coasts of Costa Rica and Panama

Pacific Coasts of El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua

External Links

Encyclopedia of Life

Wikipedia

iNaturalist

NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank

GBIF

Photos

Video

Female Uca stylifera feeding (with Leptuca beebei in fore- and background)

19 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Uca stylifera waving

29 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Uca stylifera waving

40 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Uca stylifera fighting

40 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Uca stylifera waving and fighting

2:27 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Surface mating in Uca stylifera

1:42 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Surface mating in Uca stylifera

2:03 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

References

Altevogt (1955), Altevogt (1955), Altevogt (1957), Altevogt (1969), Altevogt (1972), Barnwell (1968), Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Chirichigno Fonseca (1970), Crane (1941), Crane (1944), Crane (1947), Crane (1957), Crane (1975), Domínguez Alonso (2008), Fingerman (1988), Guinot (1979), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Holthuis (1954), Invemar et al. (2006), Juarrero de Varona & Ortiz (2003), Kameya et al. (1998), Kingsley (1880), Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Levinton et al. (1996), Lockington (1877), Low & Ng (2012), Milne Edwards (1837), Milne Edwards (1852), Milne Edwards (1854), Moscoso (2012), Moscoso (2013), Ng et al. (2008), Oliveira (1939), Ortmann (1897), Pesta (1931), Peters (1955), Rao (1985), Rathbun (1911), Rathbun (1918), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Salmon & Horch (1972), Salmon et al. (1978), Shih et al. (2016), Smith (1870), Smith (1871), Sturmbauer et al. (1996), Thurman et al. (2025), von Hagen (1962), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1976), von Prahl (1981), von Prahl (1982), von Prahl & Toro (1985)