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Paraleptuca splendida

Splendid Fiddler Crab

Paraleptuca splendida

Type Description

Gelasimus splendidus
Stimpson, W. (1858) Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum quæ in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Pars. V. Crustacea Ocypodoidea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 10:93–110.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus Paraleptuca
Common Names
Chinese: 麗彩招潮
English: Splendid Fiddler Crab
Japanese: 「スイカガニ」
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Gelasimus splendidus, Paraleptuca splendida, Paraleptuca splendidus, Uca splendida
Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 17.0 mm ± 3.64 (sd), 95% range: 9.9–24.1 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: Taiwan, China, Vietnam
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: Shih et al. (2012); Shih et al. (2016)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank

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References

Balss (1922), Cano (1889), Cano (1889), Chertoprud et al. (2012), Crane (1975), Forest & Guinot (1961), Gee (1925), Gordon (1931), Kingsley (1880), Kwok & Tang (2006), Miers (1886), Ng et al. (2008), Ng et al. (2017), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Sakai (1939), Shen (1940), Shen (1940), Shih (2013), Shih et al. (2013), Shih et al. (2016), Shih et al. (2010), Shih et al. (2022), Stimpson (1858), Stimpson (1907), Targioni Tozzetti (1877), Wada (2019)