Petruca panamensis

Information

Taxonomy

Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Minucini → Genus Petruca

Common Names

English: Panamanian Fiddler Crab, Rock Fiddler Crab

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Gelasimus panamensis, Minuca panamensis, Petruca panamensis, Uca (Leptuca) panamensis, Uca (Minuca) panamensis, Uca panamensis

Size

Small Carapace Breadth: 15.3 mm ± 2.26 (sd), 95% range: 10.9–19.7 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)

External Links

Encyclopedia of Life

Wikipedia

iNaturalist

NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank

GBIF

Photos

Video

Multiple male Petruca panamensis waving

27 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Multiple male Petruca panamensis waving, female (hidden on right) feeding

59 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Petruca panamensis waving

50 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Multiple male Petruca panamensis waving

1:38 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

References

Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Boone (1927), Boone (1929), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Cano (1889), Cano (1889), Chirichigno Fonseca (1970), Crane (1941), Crane (1944), Crane (1947), Crane (1957), Crane (1975), Evans (1967), Garth (1948), Glassell (1934), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Holthuis (1954), Invemar et al. (2006), Kameya et al. (1998), Kingsley (1880), Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007), Leija-Tristán et al. (1990), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Levinton et al. (1996), Lockington (1877), Maccagno (1928), Moscoso (2012), Moscoso (2013), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Nobili (1901), Oliveira (1939), Peters (1955), Powers (1975), Rathbun (1911), Rathbun (1918), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Salmon & Zucker (1988), Shih et al. (2016), Smith (1870), Stimpson (1859), Strauch & Abele (1979), Sturmbauer et al. (1996), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Prahl (1982), von Prahl (1986), von Prahl & Guhl (1979)