Gelasimus vomeris

Information

Taxonomy

Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Gelasimini → Genus Gelasimus → Subgenus Gelasimus

Common Names

English: Orange-clawed Fiddler Crab, Southern Calling Fiddler Crab, Two-toned Fiddler Crab

Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)

Galasimus vomeris, Gelasimus (Gelasimus) vomeris, Gelasimus vomeris, Uca (Gelasimus) vomeris, Uca (Thalassuca) vocans vomeris, Uca marionis var. vomeris, Uca vocans vomeris, Uca vomeris

Size

Medium Carapace Breadth: 15.8 mm ± 4.80 (sd), 95% range: 6.4–25.2 mm, (Data)

Geographic Range

Indo-West Pacific Realm: east coast of Australia, New Caledonia, possibly eastern New Guinea

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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); George & Jones (1982); Poupin & Juncker (2010); von Hagen & Jones (1989)

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References

Alongi & Sasekumar (1992), Barnwell (1982), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bouchard et al. (2013), Bywater et al. (2009), Bywater et al. (2011), Bywater et al. (2012), Bywater et al. (2014), Bywater & Wilson (2010), Bywater & Wilson (2010), Crane (1957), Crane (1975), Dakin (1952), Davie (1982), Dev Roy & Bhadra (2005), Dye & Lasiak (1986), Dye & Lasiak (1987), Frith et al. (1976), George & Jones (1982), Hartnoll (1988), Hemmi & Tomsic (2015), Hemmi & Zeil (2003), Jaroensutasinee & Jaroensutasinee (2004), Jones & George (1982), Juncker & Poupin (2009), Kingsley (1880), Macnae (1966), Macnae (1967), Macnae (1968), McNeill (1920), McNeill (1962), Morgan (1990), Mulstay (1987), Murniati & Pratiwi (2015), Musgrave (1929), Nabout et al. (2010), Ng et al. (2008), Ng & Richer de Forges (2007), Omori & Holthuis (2000), Omori & Holthuis (2005), Onadeko et al. (2015), Otani et al. (2023), Oyenekan (1995), Peer et al. (2015), Poupin (2010), Pülmanns et al. (2016), Rathbun (1926), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2013), Rosenberg (2014), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2013), Shih et al. (2010), Shih et al. (2016), Snelling (1959), Torres et al. (2008), Veitch (1978), Vermeiren et al. (2015), Vermeiren & Sheaves (2014), Wada (2020), Ward (1928), Weis (2012), Williams & Heng (1981), Williams et al. (1980), Zeil & Hemmi (2001), Zeil et al. (2006)