Uca princeps

Information

Taxonomy

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

Common Names

English: Greater Mexican Fiddler Crab, Princely Fiddler Crab

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Gelasimus princeps, Uca (Uca) princeps, Uca (Uca) princeps princeps, Uca princeps, Uca princeps princeps

Size

Very Large Carapace Breadth: 35.4 mm ± 8.77 (sd), 95% range: 18.2–52.6 mm, (Data)

Geographic Range

Eastern Pacific Realm: southern California (USA) to 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: Brusca (1980); Crane (1975); Hendrickx (1984); Rosenberg (2018)

External Links

Encyclopedia of Life

Wikipedia

iNaturalist

NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank

GBIF

Photos

Video

Male Uca princeps waving

1:26 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Uca princeps waving (Leptuca beebei in background)

3:13 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

References

Altevogt (1957), Altevogt (1969), Altevogt (1969), Altevogt (1972), Alvarez del Castillo C. et al. (1992), Arzola-González et al. (2010), Backwell et al. (1998), Barnwell (1968), Barnwell & Stillman (1990), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Brusca (1973), Brusca (1980), Buitendijk (1950), Burnett & Infantino (1984), Campos & Lopez (1998), Cano (1889), Chavez & Cedillo (1999), Chirichigno Fonseca (1970), Crane (1941), Crane (1944), Crane (1947), Crane (1957), Crane (1975), Domínguez Alonso (2008), Félix-Pico et al. (2003), García-Madrigal et al. (2022), Garth (1957), Garth (1960), Gordillo et al. (2014), Guinot (1979), Hedgecock et al. (1982), Hendrickx (1979), Hendrickx (1984), Hendrickx (1993), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (2005), Hugie (2004), Kameya et al. (1998), Kerstitch (1989), Kingsley (1880), Lockington (1877), Low & Ng (2012), Maccagno (1928), Maloney et al. (1989), McMahon & Burggren (1988), Moscoso (2012), Moscoso (2013), Nabout et al. (2010), Nelson & Hedgecock (1980), Ng et al. (2008), Oliveira (1939), Ortmann (1897), Peters (1955), Pretzmann (1983), Rathbun (1911), Rathbun (1918), Rathbun (1924), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2018), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Salmon & Horch (1972), Salmon et al. (1978), Saussure (1853), Shih et al. (2016), Smith (1870), Smith (1871), Sullivan & Tentori (1981), Villalobos Hiriart et al. (1989), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1970), von Martens (1872), Young (1900)