Minuca vocator
Atlantic Hairback Fiddler Crab
Type Description
Cancer vocator Herbst, J.F.W. (1804) Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse. Nebst einer systematischen Beschreibung ihrer verschiedenen Arten , Volume 3, no. 4. Zurich: J. C. Fuessly.
Taxonomy
Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Minucini → Genus Minuca Common Names
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology )
Cancer vocator Gelasimus vocator Goneplax vocator Minuca murifecenta Minuca vocator Ocypode (Gelasimus) vocator Uca (Minuca) vocator Uca (Minuca) vocator vocator Uca murifecenta Uca murificenta Uca vocator Uca vocator vocator Uca vocatur Uca vodator Uça vocator Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 11.8 mm ± 6.96 (sd), 95% range: 0.0–25.5 mm (Data )
Geographic Range
Western Atlantic Realm: Mexico to Brazil; Hispaniola; Puerto Rico; Lesser Antilles
Purple fiddler crabs iNaturalist ; yellow circles with a question mark
Range map data derived from: Barnwell & Thurman (1984) ; Barnwell (1986) ; Crane (1975) ; Pérez-Mozqueda et al. (2014) ; Thurman (1984) ; Thurman1987; Thurman et al. (2013)
Associated Field Guides
Atlantic Coast of Central America Atlantic Coast of Colombia and Venezuela Brazil Caribbean Islands Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Trinidad and Tobago Southeastern Gulf of Mexico Southwestern Gulf of Mexico Texas, USA External Links
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Holmes (1904) ,
Holthuis (1959) ,
Ives (1891) ,
Kingsley (1880) ,
Lamarck (1838) ,
Landstorfer & Schubart (2010) ,
Latreille (1817) ,
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Luederwaldt (1919) ,
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Nobili (1901) ,
Oliveira (1939) ,
Oliveira (1939) ,
Ortmann (1897) ,
Pachelle et al. (2016) ,
Pérez-Mozqueda et al. (2014) ,
Powers (1977) ,
Rankin (1898) ,
Rathbun (1897) ,
Rathbun (1899) ,
Rathbun (1902) ,
Rathbun (1918) ,
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Rodriguez (1959) ,
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von Hagen (1969) ,
von Hagen (1970) ,
von Hagen (1970) ,
von Hagen (1970) ,
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von Hagen (1975) ,
von Hagen (1987) ,
von Martens (1869) ,
von Martens (1872) ,
Weygoldt (1977) ,
White (1847) ,
Wunderlich et al. (2017)
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.
