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Tubuca typhoni

Typhoon Fiddler Crab

Tubuca typhoni

Type Description

Uca demani typhoni
Crane, J. (1975) Fiddler Crabs of the World: Ocypodidae: Genus Uca. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus TubucaSubgenus Tubuca
Common Names
English: Typhoon Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Tubuca (Tubuca) typhoni, Tubuca typhoni, Uca (Deltuca) demani typhoni, Uca (Tubuca) typhoni, Uca demani typhoni, Uca demani typhony, Uca typhoni
Size
Large Carapace Breadth: 27.7 mm ± 4.27 (sd), 95% range: 19.3–36.1 mm (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: northern Philippines; Hainan (China)
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); Shih et al. (2010)
Associated Field Guides
Eastern Malay Peninsula and Mainland Southeast Asia
Mainland China and Hainan
Philippines
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
GBIF

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References

Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Crane (1975), George & Jones (1982), Ng et al. (2008), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016), Shih et al. (2010)