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Afruca tangeri

West African Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Gelasimus tangeri
Eydoux, F. (1835) Nouvelle espèce de Gélasime. Magasin de Zoologie 5(7):29–32.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily UcinaeSupertribe UcitaeTribe UciniGenus Afruca
Common Names
English: European Fiddler Crab, Moroccan Fiddler Crab, West African Fiddler Crab
Portuguese: Bôcas, Cavalletes
Spanish: Barriletes, Bocas, Bocas, Bocas de las Isla, Caballetes
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Afruca tangeri, Gelasimsu tangeri, Gelasimus atlanticus, Gelasimus cimatodus, Gelasimus perlatus, Gelasimus Tangeri, Gelasimus Tangerii, Gelasimus tangieri, Uca Afruca tangeri, Uca tangari, Uca tangeri, Uca tangeri var. matandensis, Uca tangerii, Uca tangieri, Uca tanqeri
Size
Large Carapace Breadth: 16.4 mm ± 9.21 (sd), 95% range: 0.0–34.5 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Atlantic Realm: West coast of Africa from Angola to Morocco, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde, Canary Islands, southwestern Spain and southern Portugal
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: Castro (2012); Crane (1975); Gonzáles et al. (2017); Gonzáles (2018)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
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NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

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