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Minuca burgersi

Burger's Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Uca burgersi
Holthuis, L.B. (1967) On a new species of Uca from the West Indian region (Crustacea, Brachyura, Ocypodidae). Zoologische Mededelingen 42(6):51–54.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Minuca
Common Names
English: Burger's Fiddler Crab, Saltpan Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Minuca burgersi, Uca burgersi, Uca (Leptuca) burgersi, Uca (Minuca) burgersi, Uca bergersi, Uca bergersii, Uca burgers, Uca burgersi
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 11.4 mm ± 3.22 (sd), 95% range: 5.1–17.7 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Western Atlantic Realm: southern Mexico to Venezuela; USA (southern Florida); throughout Caribbean islands
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: Abele & Kim (1986); Barnwell & Thurman (1984); Barnwell (1986); Crane (1975); Powers (1977); Thurman (1987); Thurman et al. (2013); Thurman et al. (2023); Thurmsan2010
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

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References

Abele & Kim (1986), Almeida & Coelho (2008), Andersen et al. (1990), Baldwin & Kirschener (1976), Baldwin & Kirschener (1976), Barlow (1977), Barnwell (1982), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bliss (1960), Boone (1929), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Buitendijk (1950), Castiglioni et al. (2010), Chace & Hobbs (1969), Coelho (1994/1995), Coelho et al. (2008), Coelho & Coelho-Filho (1993), Crane (1941), Crane (1943), Crane (1975), Diez & Soto-Borrero (2016), Felder et al. (2009), Finol & Croghan (1983), Fontaine & Barnwell (1988), Fransen et al. (1997), García-Madrigal et al. (2022), Gibbs (1974), Gibbs & Bryan (1972), Golley et al. (1962), Greenspan (1975), Hailman (1977), Hartnoll (1988), Hazlett (1972), Heit (1974), Hernández Roa et al. (2009), Holthuis (1959), Holthuis (1959), Holthuis (1967), Jones (1980), Jones (1968), Juarrero de Varona & Ortiz (2003), Kingsley (1880), Landstorfer & Schubart (2010), Maccagno (1928), Manning & Holthuis (1981), Mantel & Farmer (1983), Masunari et al. (2020), McFadden & Thurman (2003), Mertens (1940), Miller & Vernberg (1968), Miller et al. (2013), Milne-Edwards & Bouvier (1923), Monod (1956), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Nutting (1919), Oliveira (1939), Onadeko et al. (2015), Ortmann (1897), Oyenekan (1995), Pachelle et al. (2016), Pearse (1916), Powers (1977), Rathbun (1897), Rathbun (1900), Rathbun (1918), Rathbun (1921), Rathbun (1933), Rodriguez (1993), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Salmon (1967), Salmon & Atsaides (1968), Salmon & Atsaides (1968), Salmon & Horch (1972), Schmidt-Nielsen et al. (1968), Shields et al. (2015), Shih et al. (2016), Streets (1872), Thorbjarnarson (1988), Thurman (1979), Thurman (1981), Thurman et al. (2007), Tseng et al. (2020), Vélez (1967), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1975), von Hagen (1976), von Hagen (1980), von Hagen (1987), Warner (1977), Weis (1977), Welsh (1955), Weygoldt (1977), Williams & Heng (1981), Yamaguchi (1977), Young (1900)