Tubuca capricornis

Information

Taxonomy

Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Gelasimini → Genus Tubuca → Subgenus Tubuca

Common Names

English: Capricorn Fiddler Crab

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Tubuca (Tubuca) capricornis, Tubuca capricornis, Uca (Deltuca) capricornis, Uca (Deltuca) dussumieri capricornis, Uca (Tubuca) capricornis, Uca capricornis, Uca pavo

Size

Medium Carapace Breadth: 17.0 mm ± 6.06 (sd), 95% range: 5.1–28.9 mm, (Data)

Geographic Range

Indo-West Pacific Realm: northern and western Australia

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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: George & Jones (1982); von Hagen & Jones (1989)

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References

Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Booksmythe et al. (2008), Crane (1975), Davie (1982), George & Jones (1982), Jones & George (1982), Kinnear et al. (2009), Morgan (1990), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Rupp (2012), Rupp (2013), Rupp (2014), Rupp (2015), Shih et al. (2018), Shih et al. (2016), Slatyer et al. (2008), Tan et al. (2018), Tina et al. (2017), Tina et al. (2018), Tina et al. (2017), Tina et al. (2018), Tina et al. (2018), Ting et al. (2020), Wada (2020), Wang et al. (2020), Yang et al. (2019)