Minuca ecuadoriensis

Information

Taxonomy

Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Minucini → Genus Minuca

Common Names

English: Ecuadorian Fiddler Crab, Pacific Hairback Fiddler Crab

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Minuca ecuadoriensis, Minuca lanigera, Uca (Minuca) ecuadoriensis, Uca (Minuca) vocator ecuadoriensis, Uca ecuadoriensis, Uca ecuatoriensis, Uca lanigera, Uca schmitti, Uca vocator ecuadoriensis

Size

Medium Carapace Breadth: 19.4 mm ± 4.39 (sd), 95% range: 10.8–28.0 mm, (Data)

Geographic Range

Eastern Pacific Realm: Mexico to northern Peru

Download PNG line map of ranges. Download PNG line map of point locations.

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: Brusca (1980); Crane (1975); Hendrickx (1979); Hendrickx (1984); von Prahl (1982)

External Links

Encyclopedia of Life

Wikipedia

iNaturalist

NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank

GBIF

Photos

Video

Closeup of male Minuca ecuadoriensis feeding

23 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Closeup of male Minuca ecuadoriensis feeding

24 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Small male Minuca ecuadoriensis waving

27 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Long shot of male Minuca ecuadoriensis waving

35 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

References

Arzola-González et al. (2010), Barnwell (1988), Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Brusca (1973), Brusca (1980), Crane (1941), Crane (1943), Crane (1943), Crane (1943), Crane (1947), Crane (1975), Félix-Pico et al. (2003), Fransen et al. (1997), García-Madrigal et al. (2022), Garth (1948), Hendrickx (1979), Hendrickx (1984), Hendrickx (1993), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (2005), Invemar et al. (2006), Landstorfer & Schubart (2010), Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Levinton et al. (1996), Maccagno (1928), Moscoso (2012), Moscoso (2013), Ng et al. (2008), Nobili (1901), Oliveira (1939), Rathbun (1918), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Rupp (2004), Rupp (2006), Rupp (2011), Rupp (2012), Rupp (2013), Rupp (2013), Rupp (2013), Rupp (2014), Rupp (2014), Rupp (2015), Shih et al. (2016), Sturmbauer et al. (1996), Thurman (1979), Villegas et al. (2021), Villegas et al. (2022), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1970), von Prahl (1982), von Prahl (1986)