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Minuca zacae

Lesser Mexican Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Uca zacae
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.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily Gelasiminae → Supertribe Gelasimitae → Tribe Minucini → Genus Minuca
Common Names
English: Lesser Mexican Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Minuca zacae, Uca (Minuca) zacae, Uca zacae
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 9.8 mm ± 1.77 (sd), 95% range: 6.3–13.2 mm, (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: Mexico to Costa Rica
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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); Hendrickx (1979); Hendrickx (1984); Hendrickx & Salgado-Barragán (1992)
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
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NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
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References

Arzola-González et al. (2010), Barnwell (1968), Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Bott (1954), Brusca (1973), Brusca (1980), Crane (1941), Crane (1947), Crane (1975), Fingerman (1970), García-Madrigal et al. (2022), González (2024), Hendrickx (1979), Hendrickx (1984), Hendrickx (1993), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (2005), Hendrickx & Salgado-Barragán (1992), Holthuis (1954), Holthuis (1954), Invemar et al. (2006), Landstorfer & Schubart (2010), Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Moscoso (2012), Ng et al. (2008), Rao (1985), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016), Sullivan & Tentori (1981), von Hagen (1968), von Hagen (1987)