Paraleptuca splendida

Information

Taxonomy

Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Gelasimini → Genus Paraleptuca

Common Names

Chinese: 麗彩招潮

English: Splendid Fiddler Crab

Japanese: 「スイカガニ」

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Gelasimus splendidus, Paraleptuca splendida, Paraleptuca splendidus, Uca (Paraleptuca) splendida, Uca splendida

Size

Medium Carapace Breadth: 17.0 mm ± 3.64 (sd), 95% range: 9.9–24.1 mm, (Data)

Geographic Range

Indo-West Pacific Realm: Taiwan, China, Vietnam

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: Shih et al. (2012); Shih et al. (2016)

External Links

Encyclopedia of Life

Wikipedia

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NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank

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References

Balss (1922), Cano (1889), Cano (1889), Chertoprud et al. (2012), Crane (1975), Forest & Guinot (1961), Gee (1925), Gordon (1931), Kingsley (1880), Kwok & Tang (2006), Miers (1886), Ng et al. (2008), Ng et al. (2017), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Sakai (1939), Shen (1940), Shen (1940), Shih (2013), Shih et al. (2013), Shih et al. (2016), Shih et al. (2010), Shih et al. (2022), Stimpson (1858), Stimpson (1907), Targioni Tozzetti (1877), Wada (2019)