Leptuca

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Leptuca
Uca pugilator and hole crop.jpg
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Ocypodidae
Subfamily: Gelasiminae
Tribe:
Genus: Leptuca
Bott, 1973

Leptuca is a genus of fiddler crabs belonging to the family Ocypodidae.[1]

The species of this genus are found on the coasts of the Americas.[1]

Description[]

They are small- to large-sized crabs with an adult carapace width of 5–25 mm in adults.[2] The front of their carapace is broad and they have short anterolateral margins with 0–2 posterolateral striae on the top of the carapace.

Species[]

There are currently 30 species in the genus:[2][3]

  • Leptuca batuenta (Crane, 1941) (beating fiddler crab)
  • Leptuca beebei (Crane, 1941) (Beebe's fiddler crab)
  • (Rathbun, 1893) (painted fiddler crab)
  • Leptuca crenulata (Lockington, 1877) (Mexican fiddler crab)
  • Leptuca cumulanta (Crane, 1943) (heaping fiddler crab)
  • Leptuca deichmanni (Rathbun, 1935) (Deichmann's fiddler crab)
  • (von Hagen, 1968) (Dorothy's fiddler crab)
  • (Nobili, 1902) (Festa's fiddler crab)
  • Leptuca helleri (Rathbun, 1902) (Heller's fiddler crab)
  • (Rathbun, 1935) (uneven fiddler crab)
  • (Rathbun, 1893) (lateral-handed fiddler crab)
  • Leptuca leptodactyla (Rathbun, 1898) (thin-fingered fiddler crab)
  • (Crane, 1941) (Pacific mud fiddler crab)
  • Leptuca musica (Rathbun, 1914) (musical fiddler crab)
  • (Rathbun, 1904) (aqua fiddler crab)
  • Leptuca panacea (Novak & Salmon, 1974) (gulf sand fiddler crab)
  • Leptuca pugilator (Bosc, 1802) (Atlantic sand fiddler crab)
  • (Crane, 1941) (pygmy fiddler crab)
  • Leptuca saltitanta (Crane, 1941) (energetic fiddler crab)
  • Leptuca speciosa (Ives, 1891) (brilliant fiddler crab)
  • Leptuca spinicarpa (Rathbun, 1900) (spiny-wristed fiddler crab)
  • (Milne-Edwards & Lucas, 1843) (narrow-fingered fiddler crab)
  • Leptuca subcylindrica (Stimpson, 1859) (Laguna Madre fiddler crab)
  • (von Hagen, 1968) (Peruvian fidder crab)
  • (Crane, 1941) (slender-legged fiddler crab)
  • Leptuca terpsichores (Crane, 1941) (dancing fiddler crab)
  • Leptuca thayeri (Rathbun, 1900) (Atlantic mangrove fiddler crab)
  • (Crane, 1941) (matted fiddler crab)
  • (Crane, 1941) (Pacific mangrove fiddler crab)
  • Leptuca uruguayensis (Nobili, 1901) (Uruguayan fiddler crab)

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Leptuca Bott, 1973". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
  2. ^ a b 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.
  3. ^ 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).
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