Shih, H.-T., B.K.K. Chan, and P.K.L. Ng (2018) Tubuca alcocki, a new pseudocryptic species of fiddler crab from the Indian Ocean, sister to the southeastern African T. urvillei (H. Milne Edwards, 1852) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Ocypodidae). ZooKeys 747:41–62.
Derivation
Named after Alfred William Alcock, who first recorded this species from India and Pakistan under the name Uca urvillei.