Leptuca saltitanta

Information

Taxonomy

Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Minucini → Genus Leptuca

Common Names

English: Energetic Fiddler Crab

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Leptuca saltitanta, Uca (Celuca) [crenulata] saltitanta, Uca (Leptuca) saltitanta, Uca (Minuca) saltitanta saltitanta, Uca saltitanta

Size

Very Small Carapace Breadth: 5.8 mm ± 0.91 (sd), 95% range: 4.0–7.6 mm, (Data)

Geographic Range

Eastern Pacific Realm: El Salvador to Colombia

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

GBIF

Photos

Video

Male Leptuca saltitanta waving and drumming

1:37 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Leptuca saltitanta waving

35 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Leptuca saltitanta waving

1:47 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Leptuca saltitanta waving and drumming (toward end of clip)

32 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Interspecific agression between male Leptuca batuenta (on right) and male Leptuca saltitanta (on left)

23 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

References

Altevogt (1959), Altevogt (1962), Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Burkenroad (1947), Crane (1941), Crane (1943), Crane (1943), Crane (1944), Crane (1947), Crane (1957), Crane (1966), Crane (1975), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Peters (1955), Portell et al. (2012), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Schöne (1961), Shih et al. (2016), von Hagen (1962), von Hagen (1968)