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Minuca vocator

Atlantic Hairback Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Cancer vocator
Herbst, J.F.W. (1804) Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse. Nebst einer systematischen Beschreibung ihrer verschiedenen Arten, Volume 3, no. 4. Zurich: J. C. Fuessly.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Minuca
Common Names
English: Atlantic Hairback Fiddler Crab, Jumbi Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Cancer vocator, Gelasimus vocator, Goneplax vocator, Minuca murifecenta, Minuca vocator, Uca murifecenta, Uca murificenta, Uca vocator, Uca vocator vocator, Uca vocatur, Uca vodator, Uça vocator
Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 11.8 mm ± 6.96 (sd), 95% range: 0.0–25.5 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Western Atlantic Realm: Mexico to Brazil; Hispaniola; Puerto Rico; Lesser Antilles
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: Barnwell & Thurman (1984); Barnwell (1986); Crane (1975); Pérez-Mozqueda et al. (2014); Thurman (1984); Thurman1987; Thurman et al. (2013)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

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References

Abele & Kim (1986), Abrunhosa et al. (2011), Albrecht & von Hagen (1981), Almeida & Coelho (2008), Altevogt (1969), Altevogt (1972), Amouroux & Tavares (2005), Andersen et al. (1990), Aschenbroich et al. (2016), Aveline (1980), Barnwell (1968), Barnwell (1988), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bento et al. (2007), Bott (1973), Bourdon & Bowman (1970), Brusca (1980), Castiglioni et al. (2010), Chace & Hobbs (1969), Coelho (1963/1964), Coelho (1994/1995), Coelho et al. (2008), Coelho & Coelho-Filho (1993), Coelho & Ramos (1972), Crane (1943), Crane (1966), Crane (1975), de Gibert et al. (2013), De Haan (1833-1850), del Castillo et al. (2015), Dias da Rocha (1948), Diele & Koch (2010), Fausto-Filho (1978), Felder et al. (2009), Fontaine & Barnwell (1988), Fowler (1912), Fransen et al. (1997), Gerstaecker & Ortmann (1901), Gundlach (1887), Günther (1963), Herbst (1804), Herklots (1861), Hernández Aguilera et al. (1996), Holmes (1904), Holthuis (1959), Ives (1891), Kingsley (1880), Lamarck (1838), Landstorfer & Schubart (2010), Latreille (1817), Latreille (1817), Levinton et al. (1996), Luederwaldt (1919), Luederwaldt (1919), Luederwaldt (1929), Masunari et al. (2020), McKeon & Feller (2004), Milne Edwards (1837), Milne Edwards (1852), Milne Edwards (1854), Milne-Edwards & Bouvier (1923), Moreira (1901), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Nobili (1901), Oliveira (1939), Oliveira (1939), Ortmann (1897), Pachelle et al. (2016), Pérez-Mozqueda et al. (2014), Powers (1977), Rankin (1898), Rathbun (1897), Rathbun (1899), Rathbun (1902), Rathbun (1918), Raz-Guzman & Sanchez (1992), Rodriguez (1959), Romero-Rodríguez et al. (2017), Rosa Filho et al. (2018), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Salmon & Atsaides (1968), Salmon & Zucker (1988), Schäfer (1954), Shih et al. (2016), Smith (1870), Sturmbauer et al. (1996), Swennen et al. (1982), Thurman (1979), Thurman (1981), Thurman et al. (2007), Utrera-López & Capistrán-Barradas (2013), Vannini (1980), von Hagen (1967), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1969), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1975), von Hagen (1987), von Martens (1869), von Martens (1872), Weygoldt (1977), White (1847), Wunderlich et al. (2017)