Uca heteropleura

Information

Taxonomy

Subfamily Ucinae → Supertribe Ucitae → Tribe Ucini → Genus Uca → Subgenus Uca

Common Names

English: American Red Fiddler Crab

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Gelasimus heteropleurus, Heteruca heteropleura, Uca (Uca) (Major) heteropleura, Uca (Uca) [major] heteropleura, Uca (Uca) heteropleura, Uca (Uca) major heteropleura, Uca heteropleura, Uca heteropleurus

Size

Medium Carapace Breadth: 13.9 mm ± 3.49 (sd), 95% range: 7.0–20.7 mm, (Data)

Geographic Range

Eastern Pacific Realm: El Salvador 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: Crane (1975); von Prahl (1982)

External Links

Encyclopedia of Life

Wikipedia

iNaturalist

NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank

GBIF

Photos

Video

Male Uca heteropleura waving

7 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Uca heteropleura waving

1:03 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

References

Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1954), Crane (1941), Crane (1947), Crane (1957), Crane (1975), Domínguez Alonso (2008), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Holthuis (1954), Invemar et al. (2006), Kingsley (1880), Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Levinton et al. (1996), Lockington (1877), Moscoso (2012), Moscoso (2013), Ng et al. (2008), Oliveira (1939), Ortmann (1897), Pretzmann (1983), Rathbun (1918), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016), Smith (1870), Smith (1871), Sturmbauer et al. (1996), von Hagen (1962), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Prahl (1981), von Prahl (1982), von Prahl & Toro (1985)