Leeward Islands [Lesser Antilles]

Includes Subareas

• Anguilla
• Antigua and Barbuda
• British Virgin Islands
• Guadeloupe
• Saint Barthélemy
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Martin
• U.S. Virgin Islands
• Montserrat

Currently Recognized Species

• Leptuca leptodactyla
• Leptuca thayeri
• Minuca burgersi
• Minuca rapax
• Minuca vocator^‡
• Uca major

Names Which Have Been Used for This Area

• Gelasimus affinis
• Gelasimus grangeri
• Gelasimus rapax
• Gelasimus vocans
• Gelasimus vocator
• Leptuca thayeri
• Minuca mordax
• Minuca rapax
• Uca
• Uca (Minuca) [galapagensis] rapax rapax
• Uca (Minuca) burgersi
• Uca (Minuca) mordax
• Uca (Minuca) rapax
• Uca (Minuca) vocator
• Uca (Uca) [major] major
• Uca (Uca) major
• Uca affinis
• Uca burgersi
• Uca heterochelos
• Uca leptodactyla
• Uca leptostyla
• Uca longisignalis
• Uca major
• Uca mordax
• Uca pilosipes
• Uca pugnax rapax
• Uca rapax
• Uca sp. nov.
• Uca thayeri
• Uca vocator

Specific Names Which Have Been Used for This Area

• affinis
• burgersi
• grangeri
• heterochela
• leptodactyla
• leptostyla
• longisignalis
• major
• mordax
• pilosipes
• rapax
• thayeri
• vocans
• vocator

References

Abele & Kim (1986)^†, Almeida et al. (2008)^†, Almeida & Coelho (2008)^†, Aurivillius (1893), Barnwell (1982)^†, Boone (1929)^†, Bott (1954)^†, Chace & Hobbs (1969)^†, Coelho et al. (2008)^†, Crane (1941)^†, Crane (1943)^†, Crane (1958)^†, Crane (1975)^†, Felder et al. (2009)^†, Fransen et al. (1997), García-Madrigal et al. (2022)^†, Gibbs (1974), Gibbs & Bryan (1972), Gill (1858), Gmitter & Wotton (1953), Hartnoll (1988)^†, Holthuis (1959)^†, Holthuis (1959), Holthuis (1967)^†, Jones (1968)^†, Juarrero de Varona & Ortiz (2003)^†, Kingsley (1880)^†, Luederwaldt (1919)^†, Maccagno (1928), Ng et al. (2008)^†, Novak & Salmon (1974)^†, Nutting (1919), Oliveira (1939)^†, Onadeko et al. (2015)^†, Ortmann (1897)^†, Oyenekan (1995)^†, Powers (1977), Rathbun (1918), Rathbun (1921), Rathbun (1933)^†, Rodriguez (1993)^†, Rosenberg (2020)^†, Salmon (1967)^†, Schramm (1867), Shih et al. (2016), Streets (1872), Thompson (1901), Thurman (1979)^†, Thurman (1981)^†, Vélez (1967)^†, Vernberg & Vernberg (1966)^†, von Hagen (1968)^†, von Hagen (1970)^†, von Hagen (1980)^†, Williams & Heng (1981)^†, Wolcott & Wolcott (1987), Yamaguchi (1977)^†, Young (1900)^†