Leptuca terpsichores

Information

Taxonomy

Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Minucini → Genus Leptuca

Common Names

English: Dancing Fiddler Crab

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Leptuca terpsichores, Uca (Celuca) musica terpsichores, Uca (Leptuca) terpsichores, Uca (Minuca) terpsichores, Uca musica terpsichore, Uca musica terpsichores, Uca terpsichores

Size

Small Carapace Breadth: 8.6 mm ± 0.92 (sd), 95% range: 6.8–10.4 mm, (Data)

Geographic Range

Eastern Pacific Realm: southern Guatemala 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)

External Links

Encyclopedia of Life

Wikipedia

iNaturalist

NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank

GBIF

Photos

Video

Male Leptuca terpsichores waving

21 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Leptuca terpsichores waving

34 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Leptuca terpsichores waving

33 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Leptuca terpsichores waving

40 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Leptuca terpsichores waving by hood

24 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Leptuca terpsichores waving

1:26 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Leptuca terpsichores displaying, with quick grab and throw (~36 sec. into clip)

58 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Leptuca terpsichores fighting

1:05 min., 352 × 240, MP4

Male Leptuca terpsichores fighting

18 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

References

Altevogt (1957), Altevogt (1970), Altevogt (1972), Aspey (1978), Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bergin (1981), Bott (1954), Bott (1973), Brusca (1980), Christy & Dennenmoser (2006), Christy et al. (1996), Christy et al. (2005), Cortes-Carrasco & del Socorro Garcia-Madrigal (2013), Crane (1941), Crane (1943), Crane (1944), Crane (1947), Crane (1957), Crane (1966), Crane (1975), Doherty (1982), Dumortier (1963), Dunham & Gilchrist (1988), Ghent & Zucker (1990), Greenspan (1975), Guinot-Dumortier & Dumortier (1960), Harris et al. (1998), Hartnoll (1988), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Hyatt (1973), Hyatt (1975), Kaufmann & Barnwell (1985), Kerr et al. (2010), Kim et al. (2006), Kim et al. (2004), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Moscoso (2012), Moscoso (2013), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Peters (1955), Powers (1975), Powers & Bliss (1983), Powers & Cole (1976), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Salmon & Hyatt (1983), Sastry (1983), Schöne (1961), Shih et al. (2016), Skov & Hartnoll (2001), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1970), von Hagen (1975), von Prahl (1986), Wada (1993), Weis (2012), Zucker (1972), Zucker (1973), Zucker (1974), Zucker (1976), Zucker (1977), Zucker (1978), Zucker (1980), Zucker & Denny (1979)