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Tubuca arcuata

Bowed Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Gelasimus arcuatus
De Haan, W. (1833–1850) Crustacea. Pp. 1–243 in Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam, jussu et auspiciis superiorum, qui summum in India Batava Imperium tenent, suscepto, annis 1823-1830 collegit, notis, observationibus et adumbrationibus illustravit, P.F. von Siebold, ed. Amsterdam: Lugduni Batavorum.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus TubucaSubgenus Tubuca
Common Names
Chinese: 弧边招潮蟹, 網紋招潮蟹
English: Bowed Fiddler Crab, Japanese Fiddler Crab
Japanese: シオマネキ
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Deltuca arcuata, Gelasimus arcuatus, Gelasimus brevipede, Gelasimus brevipes, Mesuca (Mesuca) brevipes, Ocypode (Gelasimus) arcuata, Tubuca (Tubuca) arcuata, Tubuca (Uca) arcuata, Tubuca arcata, Tubuca arcuata, Uca (Deltuca) [coarctata] arcuata, Uca (Deltuca) arcuata, Uca (Tubuca) arcuata, Uca (Uca) arcuata, Uca arcuata, Uca arcuate, Uca arcuatus, Uca brevipes
Size
Large Carapace Breadth: 25.3 mm ± 5.83 (sd), 95% range: 13.9–36.8 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan
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: Crane (1975); Hosoya et al. (1993); Jones & Morton (1994); Shih et al. (2010); Shih et al. (2016)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

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References

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