Leptuca beebei
Beebe's Fiddler Crab
Type Description
Uca beebei 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 )
Celuca beebei Leptuca beebei Uca (Celuca) beebei Uca (Leptuca) beebei Uca (Minuca) stenodactyla beebei Uca (Minuca) stenodactylus beebei Uca beebei Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 8.1 mm ± 1.72 (sd), 95% range: 4.7–11.5 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 NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank GBIF
Closeup of male Leptuca beebei feeding 36 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca beebei waving 22 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca deichmanni in front of stick, male Leptuca beebei behind stick, both waving 46 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca beebei waving and fighting (Uca stylifera in foreground at start of clip) 55 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca beebei waving and fighting 57 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca beebei waving with small fight 35 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca beebei evicts female from burrow, then digs a bit to make it larger 59 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
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Altevogt (1955) ,
Altevogt (1957) ,
Altevogt (1972) ,
Bailey (2012) ,
Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985) ,
Beinlich & von Hagen (2006) ,
Bott (1954) ,
Bott (1973) ,
Christy (1985) ,
Christy (1988) ,
Christy & Dennenmoser (2006) ,
Crane (1941) ,
Crane (1943) ,
Crane (1943) ,
Crane (1944) ,
Crane (1947) ,
Crane (1957) ,
Crane (1975) ,
Detto et al. (2004) ,
Domínguez Alonso (2008) ,
Dunham & Gilchrist (1988) ,
Green (1961) ,
Hartnoll (1988) ,
Hendrickx (1995) ,
Hendrickx (1995) ,
Holthuis (1954) ,
Holthuis (1954) ,
Kaufmann & Barnwell (1985) ,
Kim et al. (2006) ,
Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992) ,
Levinton et al. (1996) ,
Moscoso (2012) ,
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Nabout et al. (2010) ,
Ng et al. (2008) ,
Peters (1955) ,
Powers (1975) ,
Powers & Bliss (1983) ,
Ra'anan & Cohen (1985) ,
Rathbun (1918) ,
Rosenberg (2000) ,
Rosenberg (2001) ,
Rosenberg (2002) ,
Rosenberg (2019) ,
Rosenberg (2020) ,
Sastry (1983) ,
Schöne (1961) ,
Shih et al. (2016) ,
Skov & Hartnoll (2001) ,
Strauch & Abele (1979) ,
Sturmbauer et al. (1996) ,
von Hagen (1962) ,
von Hagen (1968) ,
von Hagen (1975) ,
von Prahl (1981) ,
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Yamaguchi (1971) ,
Zucker (1978)
