Naderloo, R., C.D. Schubart, and H.-T. Shih (2016) Genetic and morphological separation of Uca occidentalis, a new East African fiddler crab species, from Uca annulipes (H. Milne Edward, 1837) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 262:10–19.
Derivation
Named for its distribution in the "western" Indian Ocean