Austruca triangularis

Information

Taxonomy

Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Gelasimini → Genus Austruca → Subgenus Cuneatuca

Common Names

English: Lemon Fiddler Crab, Triangular Fiddler Crab

Japanese: シモフリシオマネキ

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Austruca (Cuneatuca) triangularis, Austruca triangularis, Gelasimus triangularis, Gelasimus triangularis var. variabilis, Gelasimus triangularis variabilis, Gelasimus variabilis, Uca (Austruca) triangularis, Uca (Austruca) triangularis, Uca (Cecluca) triangularis, Uca (Celuca) triangularis, Uca (Celuca) triangularis triangularis, Uca (Deltuca) triangularis, Uca (Gelasimus) triangularis, Uca (Minuca) triangularis, Uca (Minuca) variabilis, Uca (Paraleptuca) triangularis, Uca triangularis, Uca triangularis triangularis, Uca triangularis var. variabilis, Uca triangularis variabilis, Uca triangularius, Uca trianqularis, Uca variabilis

Size

Small Carapace Breadth: 11.0 mm ± 2.25 (sd), 95% range: 6.5–15.4 mm (Data)

Geographic Range

Indo-West Pacific Realm: Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, southern Ryuku Islands, New Caledonia, eastern Australia, Melville Island (northern Australia), remote occurrences along mainland China

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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: Crane (1975); Dai & Yang (1991); Fukui et al. (1989); George & Jones (1982); Huang et al. (1989); Iguchi & Nishihira (1994); Jones & Morton (1994); Poupin (2010); Shih et al. (2010); Shih et al. (2019); Tang et al. (2007); von Hagen & Jones (1989)

Associated Field Guides

Borneo

Central Indonesia

Central Melanesia

Eastern Australia

Eastern Malay Peninsula and Mainland Southeast Asia

New Guinea

Philippines

Ryuku Islands, Japan

Sumatra

Taiwan

Western Micronesia

External Links

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References

Adirwiryono et al. (1984), Akash & Chowdhury (2017), Alcock (1900), Altevogt (1969), Aprilyanto et al. (2017), Aprilyanto et al. (2017), Barnard (1950), Barnes (2010), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Chopra & Das (1937), Crane (1975), Davie (1982), De Man (1887-1888), De Man (1891), De Man (1892), Deb (1998), Deb (1999), Dev Roy & Bhadra (2005), Dev Roy & Bhadra (2011), Estampador (1937), Estampador (1959), Fransen et al. (1997), Fukui et al. (1989), George & Jones (1982), Gordon (1934), Guinot (1979), Henderson (1893), Ho et al. (1993), IUCN Bangladesh (2015), Jones & George (1982), Juncker & Poupin (2009), Kawaida et al. (2017), Kingsley (1880), Krishnan (1992), Lauren & Sumarmin (2020), Maccagno (1928), Macnae (1968), McNeill (1968), Michie et al. (2015), Milne-Edwards (1873), Mitra et al. (2010), Miyake (1938), Miyake (1939), Miyake (1963), Murai & Goshima (1987), Murniati (2009), Murniati (2010), Murniati (2015), Murniati & Pratiwi (2015), Naderloo et al. (2016), Naderloo et al. (2010), Naiyanetr (2007), Ng et al. (2008), Ng & Richer de Forges (2007), Ng et al. (2017), Ng et al. (2001), Nobili (1899), Nobili (1899), Nobili (1903), Ono (1963), Ortmann (1894), Ortmann (1897), Poupin (2010), Pratiwi (2009), Pratiwi & Widyastuti (2013), Pratiwi et al. (2018), Rao & Rath (2014), Rath & Dev Roy (2008), Rathbun (1913), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Sakai (1936), Sakai (1976), Sastranegara et al. (2003), Serène (1973), Shih et al. (2013), Shih et al. (2010), Shih et al. (2016), Shih et al. (2010), Shih et al. (2019), Shih et al. (2022), Stephenson et al. (1931), Tang et al. (2007), Tesch (1918), Tweedie (1937), Tweedie (1950), von Hagen (1970), Wada (2019), Wada (2020), Ward (1941), Yoshigou (2001)