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Leptuca pygmaea

Pygmy Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Uca pygmaea
Crane, J. (1941) Eastern Pacific Expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. XXVI. Crabs of the genus Uca from the west coast of Central America. Zoologica NY 26(3):145–208.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Minucini → Genus Leptuca
Common Names
English: Pygmy Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Leptuca pygmaea, Uca (Leptuca) pygmaea, Uca (Minuca) pygmaea, Uca pygmaea
Size
Very Small Carapace Breadth: 7.9 mm ± 0.21 (sd), 95% range: 7.5–8.3 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: southern Costa Rica to Colombia
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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: Crane (1975); von Prahl (1982)
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References

Abele & Kim (1989), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Crane (1941), Crane (1975), Garth (1948), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Invemar et al. (2006), Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Ng et al. (2008), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016), von Hagen (1987), von Prahl (1982)