Gelasimus vocans

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Gelasimus vocans
Calling Fiddler Crab (Uca vocans) (15717078196).jpg
male, Bako National Park, Malaysia
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Ocypodidae
Subfamily: Gelasiminae
Tribe:
Genus:
Species:
G. vocans
Binomial name
Gelasimus vocans
Synonyms [1]
  • Cancer vocans Linnaeus, 1758
  • Gelasimus cultrimanus White, 1847
  • Gelasimus marionis Desmarest, 1823
  • Gelasimus nitidus Dana, 1851
  • Ocypode citharoedicus Say, 1817
  • Uca marionis forma excisa Nobili, 1906
  • Uca vocans (Linnaeus, 1758)

Gelasimus vocans is a species of fiddler crab. It is found across the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea, Zanzibar and Madagascar to Indonesia and the central Pacific Ocean.[2] It lives in burrows up to 50 centimetres (20 in) deep.[2] Several forms of U. vocans have been recognised, with their authors often granting them the taxonomic rank of full species or subspecies.[3]

Gelasimus vocans was formerly in the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus , a former subgenus of Uca.[4][5][6]

References[]

  1. ^ Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
  2. ^ a b David Gillikin & Anouk Verheyden (2002). "Uca vocans (Linnaeus, 1758)". A field guide to Kenyan mangroves. Retrieved February 3, 2011.
  3. ^ Raoul Serène (1973). "The names of the forms of Uca vocans (Linnaeus) (Decapoda, Ocypodidae)". Crustaceana. 24 (3): 337–339. doi:10.1163/156854073x00722. JSTOR 20101997.
  4. ^ Shih, Hsi-Te; Ng, Peter K. L.; Davie, Peter J. F.; Schubart, Christoph D.; et al. (2016). "Systematics of the family Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Crustacea: Brachyura), based on phylogenetic relationships, with a reorganization of subfamily rankings and a review of the taxonomic status of Uca Leach, 1814, sensu lato and its subgenera". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 64.
  5. ^ Rosenberg, Michael S. (2019). "A fresh look at the biodiversity lexicon for fiddler crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae). Part 1: Taxonomy". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 39 (6).
  6. ^ "WoRMS taxon details, Gelasimus vocans (Linnaeus, 1758)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2020-11-16.


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