Austruca iranica

Information

Taxonomy

Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Gelasimini → Genus Austruca → Subgenus Austruca

Common Names

English: Iranian Fiddler Crab

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Austruca (Austruca) iranica, Austruca iranica, Uca (Austruca) iranica, Uca annulipes iranica, Uca iranica, Uca lactea iranica

Size

Small Carapace Breadth: 9.1 mm ± 2.74 (sd), 95% range: 3.7–14.5 mm, (Data)

Geographic Range

Indo-West Pacific Realm: Kuwait to Pakistan, northeastern United Arab Emirates

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: Naderloo et al. (2010); Naderloo & Türkay (2012); Naderloo et al. (2013); Naderloo et al. (2015); Saher et al. (2014); Shih et al. (2009)

External Links

Encyclopedia of Life

Wikipedia

iNaturalist

NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank

GBIF

Photos

Video

Surface mating (close up)

4:28 min., 1920 × 1080, MP4

Surface mating

1:47 min., 1920 × 1080, MP4

Female search interrupted by predator as a male unsuccesfully tries to ward off an attack by a mudskipper.

2:05 min., 1920 × 1080, MP4

Art

References

Alcock (1900), Al-Ghais & Cooper (1996), Al-Khayat (1996), Al-Musawi & Wagner (2012), Al-Nafisi et al. (2009), Apel & Türkay (1999), Baakdah (2018), Beleem et al. (2019), Collins et al. (1984), El-Sayed et al. (2016), Ghotbeddin et al. (2011), Hornby (1997), Jones & Clayton (1983), Keeratipattarakarn et al. (2018), Keeratipattarakarn et al. (2020), Maccagno (1928), Mokhlesi et al. (2011), Mokhtari et al. (2008), Murniati & Pratiwi (2015), Naderloo (2017), Naderloo et al. (2015), Naderloo et al. (2016), Naderloo & Türkay (2012), Naderloo et al. (2010), Naderloo et al. (2013), Nobili (1906), Odhano et al. (2015), Pretzmann (1971), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Saher et al. (2017), Saher et al. (2014), Shih et al. (2018), Shih et al. (2010), Shih et al. (2016), Shih et al. (2019), Shih & Poupin (2020), Shih et al. (2022), Tina et al. (2016), Tina et al. (2017), Tina et al. (2018), Tina et al. (2018), Tina et al. (2018), Trivedi et al. (2018), Trivedi & Vachhrajani (2017)