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Leptuca speciosa

Brilliant Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Gelasimus speciosus
Ives, J.E. (1891) Crustacea from the northern coast of Yucatan, the harbor of Vera Cruz, the west coast of Florida and the Bermuda Islands. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 43:176–207.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Minucini → Genus Leptuca
Common Names
English: Brilliant Fiddler Crab, Longfinger Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Gelasimus speciosus, Gonoplax speciosus, Leptuca speciosa, Uca (Celuca) [crenulata] speciosa speciosa, Uca (Leptuca) speciosa, Uca speciosa
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 12.4 mm ± 1.78 (sd), 95% range: 8.9–15.8 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Western Atlantic Realm: USA (Florida to Alabama), Mexico (Yucatan peninsula), western Cuba, The Bahamas
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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: Hopkins & Thurman (2010); Thurman et al. (2010)
External Links
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References

Abele & Kim (1986), Altevogt (1959), Altevogt (1962), Barlow (1977), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Buitendijk (1950), Burgers (1958), Buscaino et al. (2015), Chace & Hobbs (1969), Crane (1957), Crane (1966), Crane (1975), Felder et al. (2009), Greenspan (1975), Guérin-Méneville (?), Hailman (1977), Hazlett (1972), Heard (1976), Heard (1977), Heard (1982), Heard (1982), Hedgecock et al. (1982), Hernández Aguilera et al. (1996), Horlick & Subrahmanyam (1983), Hyatt (1977), Ives (1891), Juarrero de Varona & Ortiz (2003), Kingsley (1880), McFadden & Thurman (2003), Miller & Vernberg (1968), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Nobili (1899), Nobili (1901), Oliveira (1939), Ortmann (1894), Ortmann (1897), Pérez-Mozqueda et al. (2014), Powers (1977), Rathbun (1899), Rathbun (1918), Rathbun (1924), Rodríguez-Tovar et al. (2014), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2013), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Salmon (1967), Salmon & Atsaides (1968), Salmon & Atsaides (1968), Salmon et al. (1979), Salmon & Horch (1972), Shih et al. (2016), Subrahmanyam et al. (1976), Tabb & Manning (1961), Thurman (1979), Thurman (1981), Thurman (2001), Thurman (2004), Thurman et al. (2007), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1980), Wass (1955), Weis (1977), Weygoldt (1977)