Uca stylifera

Information

Taxonomy

Subfamily Ucinae → Supertribe Ucitae → Tribe Ucini → Genus Uca → Subgenus Uca

Common Names

English: Styled Fiddler Crab

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Gelasimus heterophthalmus, Gelasimus styliferus, Gelasius heterophthalmus, Uca (Gelasimus) stylifera, Uca (Uca) stylifera, Uca platydactyla var. stylifera, Uca stylifera

Size

Medium Carapace Breadth: 23.8 mm ± 1.67 (sd), 95% range: 20.6–27.1 mm, (Data)

Geographic Range

Eastern Pacific Realm: El Salvador to northern Peru

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); von Prahl (1982)

External Links

Encyclopedia of Life

Wikipedia

iNaturalist

NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank

GBIF

Photos

Video

Female Uca stylifera feeding (with Leptuca beebei in fore- and background)

19 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Uca stylifera waving

29 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Uca stylifera waving

40 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Uca stylifera fighting

40 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Uca stylifera waving and fighting

2:27 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Surface mating in Uca stylifera

1:42 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Surface mating in Uca stylifera

2:03 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

References

Altevogt (1955), Altevogt (1955), Altevogt (1957), Altevogt (1969), Altevogt (1972), Barnwell (1968), Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Chirichigno Fonseca (1970), Crane (1941), Crane (1944), Crane (1947), Crane (1957), Crane (1975), Domínguez Alonso (2008), Fingerman (1988), Guinot (1979), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Holthuis (1954), Invemar et al. (2006), Juarrero de Varona & Ortiz (2003), Kameya et al. (1998), Kingsley (1880), Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Levinton et al. (1996), Lockington (1877), Low & Ng (2012), Milne Edwards (1837), Milne Edwards (1852), Milne Edwards (1854), Moscoso (2012), Moscoso (2013), Ng et al. (2008), Oliveira (1939), Ortmann (1897), Pesta (1931), Peters (1955), Rao (1985), Rathbun (1911), Rathbun (1918), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Salmon & Horch (1972), Salmon et al. (1978), Shih et al. (2016), Smith (1870), Smith (1871), Sturmbauer et al. (1996), von Hagen (1962), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1976), von Prahl (1981), von Prahl (1982), von Prahl & Toro (1985)