Tubuca polita

Information

Taxonomy

Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Gelasimini → Genus Tubuca → Subgenus Australuca

Common Names

English: Pink-clawed Fiddler Crab, Polished Fiddler Crab

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Australuca polita, Tubuca (Australuca) polita, Tubuca polit, Tubuca polita, Uca (Australuca) polita, Uca polita

Size

Medium Carapace Breadth: 13.7 mm ± 4.51 (sd), 95% range: 4.9–22.6 mm, (Data)

Geographic Range

Indo-West Pacific Realm: Australia

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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: George & Jones (1982); von Hagen & Jones (1989)

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References

Alongi & Sasekumar (1992), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Benetti et al. (2013), Booksmythe et al. (2008), Crane (1975), Davie (1982), Dye & Lasiak (1986), Dye & Lasiak (1987), George & Jones (1982), Jamieson & Tudge (2000), Jones & George (1982), Kinnear et al. (2009), Levinton et al. (1996), Macnae (1966), Macnae (1968), Morgan (1990), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Otani et al. (2023), Peer et al. (2015), Pülmanns et al. (2016), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2014), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Saville-Kent (1897), Shih et al. (2016), Sturmbauer et al. (1996), Tan et al. (2018), Ting et al. (2020), von Hagen (1976), Wada (2020), Wang et al. (2020), Williams et al. (1980), Zeil et al. (2006)