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Uca umbratila

Pacific Mangrove Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Uca umbratila
Crane, J. (1941) Eastern Pacific Expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. XXVI. Crabs of the genus Uca from the west coast of Central America. Zoologica NY 26:145–208.

Information

Subgenus
Minuca
Common Names
Pacific Mangrove Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Leptuca umbratila, Planuca zilchi, Uca thayeri umbratila, Uca umbratila
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific: El Salvador to Colombia
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Range map data derived from: Abele & Kim (1989); Crane (1975); von Prahl (1981); von Prahl (1982)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
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References

Abele & Kim (1989), Altevogt (1972), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Crane (1941), Crane (1947), Crane (1975), Hendrickx (1995), Landstorfer & Schubart (2010), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Ng et al. (2008), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Shih et al. (2016), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1987), von Prahl (1986)