Gelasimus tetragonon

Information

Taxonomy

Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Gelasimini → Genus Gelasimus → Subgenus Mesuca

Common Names

Chinese: 四角招潮

English: Tetragonal Fiddler Crab

Japanese: ルリマダラシオマネキ

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Cancer tetragonon, Cancer tetragonus, Gelasimus (Mesuca) tetragonon, Gelasimus (Uca) tetrazonon, Gelasimus affinis, Gelasimus desjardinii, Gelasimus Duperreyi, Gelasimus tetragonon, Gelasimus tetragonum, Gelasimus variatus, Goneplax tetragonon, Mesuca (Mesuca) tetragonon, Ocypoda tetragona, Ocypode (Gelasimus) tetragonus, Ocypode tetragona, Uca (Gelasimus) tetragonon, Uca (Thalassuca) tetragonon, Uca (Uca) tetragona, Uca (Uca) tetragonon, Uca affinis, Uca duperryi, Uca tetragnon, Uca tetragodon, Uca tetragon, Uca tetragona, Uca tetragonon, Uca tetragonum

Size

Large Carapace Breadth: 18.6 mm ± 7.34 (sd), 95% range: 4.2–33.0 mm (Data)

Geographic Range

Indo-West Pacific Realm: present on most islands from the east coast of Africa to the central Pacific Ocean; rarer continental populations observed Kenya, the Red Sea, the mouth of the Persian Gulf, western Malaysia and Thailand, and the east coast of Australia

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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: Adirwiryono et al. (1984); Apel & Türkay (1999); Barnes (2010); Crane (1975); Dev Roy & Nandi (2012); George & Jones (1982); Jones & Morton (1994); Poupin et al. (2018); von Hagen & Jones (1989)

Associated Field Guides

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Central Indian Ocean

Central Indonesia

Central Melanesia

Eastern Africa

Eastern Australia

Eastern Malay Peninsula and Mainland Southeast Asia

Eastern Micronesia

Fiji and Polynesia

New Guinea

Philippines

Red Sea to southern Oman

Ryuku Islands, Japan

Singapore and Johor, Malaysia

Southern Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman

Sumatra

Taiwan

West Coast of India

Western Malay Peninsula

Western Micronesia

External Links

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References

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