Uca ornata

Information

Taxonomy

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

Common Names

English: Ornate Fiddler Crab

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Gelasimus ornatus, Uca (Acanthoplax) ornata, Uca (Uca) ornata, Uca ornata, Uca pizarri

Size

Very Large Carapace Breadth: 42.3 mm ± 5.14 (sd), 95% range: 32.2–52.3 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)

External Links

Encyclopedia of Life

Wikipedia

iNaturalist

GBIF

Photos

Video

Male Uca ornata waving (Leptuca beebei in background)

42 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Uca ornata waving (Leptuca beebei in background)

1:23 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Uca ornata waving (Leptuca beebei in background)

1:04 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Uca ornata waving, despite missing his major cheliped

52 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Uca ornata waving (Leptuca beebei in background)

6:15 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

References

Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1954), Crane (1941), Crane (1957), Crane (1975), Domínguez Alonso (2008), Fransen et al. (1997), Garth (1957), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Kingsley (1880), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Lockington (1877), Low & Ng (2012), Luque et al. (2015), Luque et al. (2017), Moscoso (2012), Moscoso (2013), Ng et al. (2008), Portell et al. (2012), Rathbun (1911), Rathbun (1918), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016), Smith (1870), Smith (1871), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1970), von Prahl & Toro (1985)