Fiddler Crabs Home

Leptuca tenuipedis

Slender-legged Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Uca tenuipedis
Crane, J. (1941) Eastern Pacific Expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. XXVI. Crabs of the genus Uca from the west coast of Central America. Zoologica NY 26(3):145–208.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Leptuca
Common Names
English: Slender-legged Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Leptuca tenuidpedis, Leptuca tenuipedis, Uca (Celuca) tenuipedis, Uca (Leptuca) tenuipedis, Uca tenuipedis
Size
Very Small Carapace Breadth: 5.4 mm ± 0.99 (sd), 95% range: 3.5–7.4 mm (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: El Salvador to northern Peru
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)
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
GBIF

Photos

Leptuca tenuipedis thumbnail
Leptuca tenuipedis thumbnail

Video

Male Leptuca tenuipedis feeding
22 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca tenuipedis feeding
27 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca tenuipedis waving (with Leptuca inaequalis)
31 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca tenuipedis waving (with Leptuca inaequalis)
44 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca tenuipedis waving (with Leptuca batuenta)
54 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

Uca tenuipedis thumbnail
Uca tenuipedis thumbnail

References

Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Crane (1941), Crane (1947), Crane (1975), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Invemar et al. (2006), Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Moscoso (2012), Moscoso (2013), Ng et al. (2008), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016), Thurman (1979), Thurman et al. (2025), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Prahl (1986)