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Austruca triangularis

Triangular Fiddler Crab

Austruca triangularis

Type Description

Gelasimus triangularis
Milne-Edwards, A. (1873) Recherches sur la faune carcinologique de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Nouvelles Archives de Muséum d'Historie Naturelle de Paris 9(2):156–332.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe GelasiminiGenus AustrucaSubgenus Cuneatuca
Common Names
English: Lemon Fiddler Crab, Triangular Fiddler Crab
Japanese: シモフリシオマネキ
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Austruca (Cuneatuca) triangularis, Austruca triangularis, Gelasimus triangularis, Gelasimus triangularis var. variabilis, Gelasimus triangularis variabilis, Gelasimus variabilis, Uca (Austruca) triangularis, Uca (Austruca) triangularis, Uca (Cecluca) triangularis, Uca (Celuca) triangularis, Uca (Celuca) triangularis triangularis, Uca (Deltuca) triangularis, Uca (Gelasimus) triangularis, Uca (Minuca) triangularis, Uca (Minuca) variabilis, Uca (Paraleptuca) triangularis, Uca triangularis, Uca triangularis triangularis, Uca triangularis var. variabilis, Uca triangularis variabilis, Uca triangularius, Uca trianqularis, Uca variabilis
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 11.0 mm ± 2.27 (sd), 95% range: 6.5–15.4 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Indo-West Pacific Realm: Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, southern Ryuku Islands, New Caledonia, eastern Australia, Melville Island (northern Australia), remote occurrences along mainland China
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); Dai & Yang (1991); Fukui et al. (1989); George & Jones (1982); Huang et al. (1989); Iguchi & Nishihira (1994); Jones & Morton (1994); Poupin (2010); Shih et al. (2010); Shih et al. (2019); Tang et al. (2007); von Hagen & Jones (1989)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

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References

Adirwiryono et al. (1984), Akash & Chowdhury (2017), Alcock (1900), Altevogt (1969), Aprilyanto et al. (2017), Aprilyanto et al. (2017), Barnard (1950), Barnes (2010), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Chopra & Das (1937), Crane (1975), Davie (1982), De Man (1887-1888), De Man (1891), De Man (1892), Deb (1998), Deb (1999), Dev Roy & Bhadra (2005), Dev Roy & Bhadra (2011), Estampador (1937), Estampador (1959), Fransen et al. (1997), Fukui et al. (1989), George & Jones (1982), Gordon (1934), Guinot (1979), Henderson (1893), Ho et al. (1993), IUCN Bangladesh (2015), Jones & George (1982), Juncker & Poupin (2009), Kawaida et al. (2017), Kingsley (1880), Krishnan (1992), Lauren & Sumarmin (2020), Maccagno (1928), Macnae (1968), McNeill (1968), Michie et al. (2015), Milne-Edwards (1873), Mitra et al. (2010), Miyake (1938), Miyake (1939), Miyake (1963), Murai & Goshima (1987), Murniati (2009), Murniati (2010), Murniati (2015), Murniati & Pratiwi (2015), Naderloo et al. (2016), Naderloo et al. (2010), Naiyanetr (2007), Ng et al. (2008), Ng & Richer de Forges (2007), Ng et al. (2017), Ng et al. (2001), Nobili (1899), Nobili (1899), Nobili (1903), Ono (1963), Ortmann (1894), Ortmann (1897), Poupin (2010), Pratiwi (2009), Pratiwi & Widyastuti (2013), Pratiwi et al. (2018), Rao & Rath (2014), Rath & Dev Roy (2008), Rathbun (1913), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Sakai (1936), Sakai (1976), Sastranegara et al. (2003), Serène (1973), Shih et al. (2013), Shih et al. (2010), Shih et al. (2016), Shih et al. (2010), Shih et al. (2019), Shih et al. (2022), Stephenson et al. (1931), Tang et al. (2007), Tesch (1918), Tweedie (1937), Tweedie (1950), von Hagen (1970), Wada (2019), Wada (2020), Ward (1941), Yoshigou (2001)