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Tubuca signata

Signaling Fiddler Crab

Tubuca signata

Type Description

Gelasimus signatus
Hess, W. (1865) Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Decapoden-Krebse ost-Australiens. Archiv für Naturgescicthe 31(1):127–173.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus TubucaSubgenus Australuca
Common Names
English: Signaling Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Australuca signata, Gelasimus signatus, Tubuca (Australuca) signata, Tubuca signata, Uca (Australuca) bellator minima, Uca (Australuca) bellator signata, Uca (Australuca) signata, Uca bellator minima, Uca signata, Uca signatus
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 11.2 mm ± 3.16 (sd), 95% range: 5.0–17.4 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: 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: George & Jones (1982); von Hagen & Jones (1989)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

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References

Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Booksmythe et al. (2008), Bott (1973), Crane (1957), Crane (1975), Davie (1982), De Man (1887), De Man (1891), De Man (1892), Estampador (1937), Estampador (1959), George & Jones (1982), Gordon (1934), Haswell (1882), Hess (1865), Jones & George (1982), Kingsley (1880), Levinton et al. (1996), Maccagno (1928), Macnae (1966), Macnae (1967), McNeill (1920), Miers (1884), Morgan (1990), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Nobbs (2003), Ortmann (1894), Ortmann (1897), Pratiwi (2007), Pratiwi (2010), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2014), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Schäfer (1954), Shih et al. (2016), Sturmbauer et al. (1996), Trave & Sheaves (2014), Tweedie (1950), Vermeiren et al. (2015), Vermeiren & Sheaves (2014), Wada (2020)