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Gelasimus dampieri

Dampier's Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Uca vocans dampieri
Crane, J. (1975) Fiddler Crabs of the World: Ocypodidae: Genus Uca. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus GelasimusSubgenus Gelasimus
Common Names
English: Australian Calling Fiddler Crab, Dampier's Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Gelasimus (Gelasimus) dampieri, Gelasimus dampieri, Uca (Gelasimus) dampieri, Uca (Thalassuca) vocans dampieri, Uca dampieri, Uca vocans dampieri
Size
Medium Carapace Breadth: 14.9 mm ± 4.05 (sd), 95% range: 7.0–22.9 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: northwestern and northern Australia
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)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

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References

Barnwell (1982), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Booksmythe et al. (2008), Bouchard et al. (2013), Crane (1957), Crane (1975), Davie (1982), George & Jones (1982), Haswell (1882), Jones & George (1982), Kinnear et al. (2009), McNeill (1920), Morgan (1990), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2013), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Saville-Kent (1897), Shih et al. (2013), Shih et al. (2010), Shih et al. (2016), Wada (2020)