Biology:Leptuca crenulata
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Short description: Species of crab
| Mexican fiddler crab | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Ocypodidae |
| Subfamily: | Gelasiminae |
| Tribe: | Minucini |
| Genus: | Leptuca |
| Species: | L. crenulata
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| Binomial name | |
| Leptuca crenulata (Lockington, 1877)
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Leptuca crenulata, commonly known as the Mexican fiddler crab, is a species of American broad-front fiddler crab in the family Ocypodidae.[1][2][3][4]
Leptuca crenulata was formerly placed in the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was transferred to the genus Leptuca, a former subgenus of Uca.[3][4][5]
References
- ↑ "Leptuca crenulata". https://www.gbif.org/species/9293681.
- ↑ "Leptuca crenulata species Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/1216655.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 64. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305766283.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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). https://academic.oup.com/jcb/article/39/6/729/5614985.
- ↑ "WoRMS taxon details, Leptuca crenulata (Lockington, 1877)". http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=955221.
Further reading
- Nizinski, Martha S. (2003). "Annotated checklist of decapod crustaceans of Atlantic coastal and continental shelf waters of the United States". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 116 (1): 96–157. ISSN 0006-324X. https://research.nhm.org/pdfs/12091/12091.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q4479758 entry
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