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Leptuca festae

Festa's Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Uca festae
Nobili, G. (1901) Viaggio del Dr. Enrico Festa nella Repubblica dell'Ecuador e regioni vicine. XXIII. Decapodi e Stomatopodi. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della R. Università di Torino 16(415):1–58.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Leptuca
Common Names
English: Festa's Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Leptuca festae, Leptuca leptochela, Leptuca orthomana, Uca (Celuca) festae, Uca (Celuca) leptochela, Uca (Leptuca) festae, Uca (Minuca) festae, Uca (Minuca) leptochela, Uca (Minuca) leptochela eibli, Uca (Minuca) leptochela leptochela, Uca (Minuca) orthomana, Uca Festae, Uca guayaquilensis, Uca leptochela, Uca quayaquilensis
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 10.3 mm ± 2.76 (sd), 95% range: 4.9–15.7 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: El Salvador to Ecuador
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: Crane (1975); von Prahl (1982)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
GBIF

Photos

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Video

Male Leptuca festae feeding
37 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Many male Leptuca festae waving
4:09 min., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca festae waving
57 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

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References

Abele & Kim (1989), Altevogt (1969), Altevogt (1972), Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Crane (1941), Crane (1944), Crane (1947), Crane (1957), Crane (1966), Crane (1975), Garth (1948), Guinot (1979), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Levinton & Judge (1993), Maccagno (1928), Ng et al. (2008), Nobili (1901), Oliveira (1939), Peters (1955), Portell et al. (2012), Rathbun (1911), Rathbun (1918), Rathbun (1935), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Schöne (1961), Shih et al. (2016), Villegas et al. (2021), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Prahl (1982)