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Cancer uka una

Seba (1758)

Cancer uka una: Seba (1758) image
This drawing is from Seba (1758). He called this Cancer uka una, Brasiliensibus, mistakingly naming it after the wrong image from Marcgrave (1648). Today, this drawing is known to be of Afruca tangeri. This identical image was reprinted in Herbst (1782) as Cancer vocans major, in Shaw & Nodder (1802) as Cancer uka, and in Latreille (1818) as Gelasima Maracoani.