Leptuca oerstedi

Information

Taxonomy

Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Minucini → Genus Leptuca

Common Names

English: Aqua Fiddler Crab, Œrsted's Fiddler Crab

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Leptuca oerstedi, Uca (Celuca) oerstedi, Uca (Leptuca) oerstedi, Uca (Minuca) oerstedi, Uca oerstedi

Size

Small Carapace Breadth: 8.9 mm ± 1.40 (sd), 95% range: 6.1–11.6 mm, (Data)

Geographic Range

Eastern Pacific Realm: El Salvador to Panama

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)

External Links

Encyclopedia of Life

Wikipedia

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GBIF

Photos

Video

Male Leptuca oerstedi waving

3:57 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Leptuca oerstedi waving (surrounded by miscellaneous species)

48 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

References

Abele & Kim (1989), Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Crane (1941), Crane (1943), Crane (1944), Crane (1947), Crane (1957), Crane (1966), Crane (1975), Green (1961), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Invemar et al. (2006), Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Neiman & Barnwell (1997), Ng et al. (2008), Oliveira (1939), Portell et al. (2012), Rathbun (1904), Rathbun (1918), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016)