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.
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Taxonomy
Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Gelasimini → Genus Gelasimus → Subgenus 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
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Wikipedia
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NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
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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)