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Leptuca oerstedi

Aqua Fiddler Crab

Leptuca oerstedi

Type Description

Uca oerstedi
Rathbun, M.J. (1904) Descriptions of three new species of American crabs. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 17:161–162.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Leptuca
Common Names
English: Aqua Fiddler Crab, Œrsted's Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Leptuca oerstedi, Uca oerstedi
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 8.9 mm ± 1.40 (sd), 95% range: 6.1–11.6 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: El Salvador to Panama
Red markers indicate locations where this species is found according to the scientific record; blue markers represent false or mistaken observations from the scientific record; green markers represent “research grade” observations imported from iNaturalist.
Range map data derived from: Crane (1975)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
GBIF

Photos

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Video

Male Leptuca oerstedi waving
3:57 min., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca oerstedi waving (surrounded by miscellaneous species)
48 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

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References

Abele & Kim (1989), Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Crane (1941), Crane (1943), Crane (1944), Crane (1947), Crane (1957), Crane (1966), Crane (1975), Green (1961), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Invemar et al. (2006), Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Neiman & Barnwell (1997), Ng et al. (2008), Oliveira (1939), Portell et al. (2012), Rathbun (1904), Rathbun (1918), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016)