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Austruca perplexa

Perplexing Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Gelasimus perplexus
Milne Edwards, H. (1852) Observations sur les affinités zoologiques et la classification naturelle des crustacés. Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Zoologie (Série 3) 18:109–166.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus AustrucaSubgenus Austruca
Common Names
Chinese: 糾結招潮
English: Perplexing Fiddler Crab, Yellow-clawed Fiddler Crab
Japanese: オキナワハクセンシオマネキ
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Austruca (Austruca) perplexa, Austruca orientalis, Austruca perplexa, Gelasimus annulipes var. orientalis, Gelasimus annulipes var. perplexa, Gelasimus annulipes var. perplexus, Gelasimus perplexus, Uca (Austruca) perplexa, Uca (Celuca) lactea perplexa, Uca (Paraleptuca) perplexa, Uca annulipes subsp. orientalis, Uca annulipes var. orientalis, Uca lactea perplexa, Uca perpkxa, Uca perplesca, Uca perplexa, Uca perplrxa
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 11.9 mm ± 3.20 (sd), 95% range: 5.6–18.1 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: found throughout virtually the entirety of the central and western Pacific islands, between American Samoa to the east and the Andaman Islands along the eastern edge of the Indian Ocean to the west, including continental Malaysia, eastern Thailand, Cambodia, and possibly Vietnam; Taiwan; the Ryukyu Islands; eastern Australia
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: Barnes (2010); Naderloo et al. (2010); Poupin (2010); Shih et al. (2009); Shih et al. (2010)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

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References

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