Leptuca batuenta
Beating Fiddler Crab
Type Description
Uca batuenta 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(3):145–208.
Taxonomy
Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Minucini → Genus Leptuca Common Names
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology )
Leptuca batuenta Uca (Celuca) (Crenulata) batuenta Uca (Celuca) [crenulata] batuenta Uca (Celuca) batuenta Uca (Leptuca) batuenta Uca (Minuca) saltitanta batuenta Uca batuenta Size
Very Small Carapace Breadth: 6.4 mm ± 0.64 (sd), 95% range: 5.1–7.7 mm, (Data )
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: El Salvador to northern Peru
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)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life Wikipedia iNaturalist GBIF
Male Leptuca batuenta feeding 17 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca batuenta feeding 29 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca batuenta feeding 10 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca batuenta waving (surrounded by miscellaneous other species) 26 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca batuenta waving 12 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Interspecific agression between male Leptuca batuenta (on right) and male Leptuca saltitanta (on left) 23 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Altevogt (1959) ,
Altevogt (1962) ,
Altevogt (1970) ,
Altevogt (1972) ,
Altevogt (1978) ,
Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985) ,
Beinlich & von Hagen (2006) ,
Bott (1954) ,
Burkenroad (1947) ,
Crane (1941) ,
Crane (1943) ,
Crane (1944) ,
Crane (1947) ,
Crane (1957) ,
Crane (1975) ,
Green (1961) ,
Hendrickx (1995) ,
Hendrickx (1995) ,
Invemar et al. (2006) ,
Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007) ,
Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992) ,
Moscoso (2012) ,
Moscoso (2013) ,
Ng et al. (2008) ,
Peters (1955) ,
Rosenberg (2000) ,
Rosenberg (2001) ,
Rosenberg (2002) ,
Rosenberg (2019) ,
Rosenberg (2020) ,
Shih et al. (2016) ,
von Hagen (1968) ,
von Prahl (1982)
