Leptuca tenuipedis
Slender-legged Fiddler Crab
Type Description
Uca tenuipedis Crane, J. (1941) Eastern Pacific Expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. XXVI. Crabs of the genus Uca from the west coast of Central America. Zoologica NY 26(3):145–208.
Taxonomy
Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Minucini → Genus Leptuca Common Names
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology )
Leptuca tenuidpedis Leptuca tenuipedis Uca (Celuca) tenuipedis Uca (Leptuca) tenuipedis Uca tenuipedis Size
Very Small Carapace Breadth: 5.4 mm ± 0.99 (sd), 95% range: 3.5–7.4 mm, (Data )
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: El Salvador to northern Peru
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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: Crane (1975)
External Links
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Male Leptuca tenuipedis feeding 22 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca tenuipedis feeding 27 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca tenuipedis waving (with Leptuca inaequalis ) 31 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca tenuipedis waving (with Leptuca inaequalis ) 44 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Leptuca tenuipedis waving (with Leptuca batuenta ) 54 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Beinlich & von Hagen (2006) ,
Crane (1941) ,
Crane (1947) ,
Crane (1975) ,
Hendrickx (1995) ,
Hendrickx (1995) ,
Invemar et al. (2006) ,
Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007) ,
Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992) ,
Moscoso (2012) ,
Moscoso (2013) ,
Ng et al. (2008) ,
Rosenberg (2000) ,
Rosenberg (2001) ,
Rosenberg (2002) ,
Rosenberg (2019) ,
Rosenberg (2020) ,
Shih et al. (2016) ,
Thurman (1979) ,
von Hagen (1968) ,
von Hagen (1970) ,
von Prahl (1986)
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