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Uca major

Greater Fiddler Crab

Uca major

Type Description

Cancer vocans major
Herbst, J.F.W. (1782) Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse. Nebst einer systematischen Beschreibung ihrer verschiedenen Arten, Volume 1, no. 1. Zurich: J. C. Fuessly.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily Ucinae → Supertribe Ucitae → Tribe Ucini → Genus Uca → Subgenus Uca
Common Names
English: Greater Fiddler Crab, Major Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Cancer vocans major, Gelasimus grangeri, Gelasimus heterocheles, Gelasimus heterochelos, Gelasimus platydactylus, Ocypoda heterochelos, Ocypode heterochelos, Uca (Uca) [major] major, Uca (Uca) major, Uca heterochela, Uca heterochelos, Uca major, Uca platydactyla, Uca Tangeri var. platydactylus, Uca una, Uka una, Uça una
Size
Large Carapace Breadth: 27.1 mm ± 4.70 (sd), 95% range: 17.9–36.3 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Western Atlantic Realm: Panama to French Guiana; eastern Cuba; The Bahamas; Hispaniola; Puerto Rico; Lesser Antilles; southeastern Mexico
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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: Barnwell1984; Barnwell (1986); Crane (1975); Thurman1987; Utrera-López & Capistrán-Barradas (2013)
External Links
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References

Albrecht & von Hagen (1981), Bott (1973), Burgers (1958), Chace & Hobbs (1969), Crane (1957), Crane (1975), Curran (2005), Curran & Martin (2003), de Gibert et al. (2013), Domínguez Alonso (2008), Dunlop & Barnwell (1990), Gerstaecker & Ortmann (1901), Herbst (1782), Holthuis (1979), ICZN (1983), Juarrero de Varona & Ortiz (2003), Kingsley (1880), Milne Edwards (1837), Milne Edwards (1852), Milne Edwards (1854), Neumann (1878), Ng et al. (2008), Oliveira (1939), Ortmann (1894), Rathbun (1918), Rathbun (1924), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2014), Rosenberg (2020), Salmon & Atsaides (1968), Schramm (1867), Shih et al. (2016), Sloane (1725), Smith (1869), Smith (1870), Stimpson (1859), Thurman (1979), Thurman et al. (2007), Utrera-López & Capistrán-Barradas (2013), von Hagen (1967), von Hagen (1967), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1975), Welsh (1955)