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Tubuca elegans

Elegant Fiddler Crab

Tubuca elegans

Type Description

Uca elegans: George, R.W., and D.S. Jones (1982) A revision of the fiddler crabs of Australia (Ocypodinae: Uca). Record of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 14:1–99.

Information

Taxonomy: Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Gelasimini → Genus Tubuca → Subgenus Australuca
Common Names: English: Elegant Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology): Tubuca (Australuca) elegans, Tubuca elegans, Uca (Australuca) elegans, Uca elegans
Size: Medium Carapace Breadth: 15.0 mm ± 4.39 (sd), 95% range: 6.4–23.6 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range: Indo-West Pacific Realm: northern and western Australia; 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: George & Jones (1982); von Hagen & Jones (1989)
External Links: Encyclopedia of Life; Wikipedia; iNaturalist; GBIF

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References

Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Booksmythe et al. (2008), Booksmythe et al. (2010), Davie (1982), George & Jones (1982), Jones & George (1982), Morgan (1990), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Nobbs (2003), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Salmon & Zucker (1988), Shih et al. (2016), Wada (2020)