Leptuca beebei
Species of crab
| Leptuca beebei | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Ocypodidae |
| Subfamily: | Gelasiminae |
| Tribe: | Minucini |
| Genus: | Leptuca |
| Species: | L. beebei |
| Binomial name | |
| Leptuca beebei (Crane, 1941) | |
| Synonyms | |
| Uca beebei (basionym) | |
Leptuca beebei, commonly known as Beebe's fiddler crab, is a species of fiddler crab native to the Pacific coasts of Central and South America, from El Salvador to northern Peru.[1]
Taxonomy
Previously a member of the genus Uca, the species was transferred in 2016 to the genus Leptuca when Leptuca was promoted from subgenus to genus level.[2][3]
Description
This is a small crab with an adult carapace width of approximately 10 millimetres (0.39 in).[1]
Habitat
The species can be found on open muddy sand flats in tropical regions.[4]
References
- ^ a b Crane, Jocelyn (1975). Fiddler Crabs of the World: Ocypodidae: Genus Uca (PDF). New Jersey, USA: Princeton University Press. pp. 278–281.
- ^ Shih, Hsi-Te; Ng, Peter K. L.; Davie, Peter J. F.; Schubart, Christoph D.; et al. (2016). "Systematics of the family Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Crustacea: Brachyura), based on phylogenetic relationships, with a reorganization of subfamily rankings and a review of the taxonomic status of Uca Leach, 1814, sensu lato and its subgenera" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 64: 139–175.
- ^ Rosenberg, Michael S. (2019). "A fresh look at the biodiversity lexicon for fiddler crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae). Part 1: Taxonomy". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 39 (6): 729–738. doi:10.1093/jcbiol/ruz057.
- ^ Christy, John H. (1987). "Female choice and the breeding behavior of the fiddler crab Uca beebei" (PDF). Journal of Crustacean Biology. 7 (4): 624–635. doi:10.2307/1548648. JSTOR 1548648.
