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History

Species
Tubuca alcocki
Original Usage
Tubuca alcocki
Original Source with Priority
Shih, H.-T., B.K.K. Chan, and P.K.L. Ng (2018) Tubuca alcocki, a new pseudocryptic species of fiddler crab from the Indian Ocean, sister to the southeastern African T. urvillei (H. Milne Edwards, 1852) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Ocypodidae). ZooKeys 747:41–62.
Derivation
Named after Alfred William Alcock, who first recorded this species from India and Pakistan under the name Uca urvillei.

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