Biology:Leptuca cumulanta
| Leptuca cumulanta | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Ocypodidae |
| Subfamily: | Gelasiminae |
| Tribe: | Minucini |
| Genus: | Leptuca |
| Species: | L. cumulanta
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| Binomial name | |
| Leptuca cumulanta (Crane, 1943)
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| Synonyms | |
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Uca cumulanta Crane, 1943 | |
Leptuca cumulanta, commonly known as the heaping fiddler crab or the mangrove fiddler crab, is a species of fiddler crab native to tropical and subtropical areas of the western Atlantic.[1][2]
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.[3][4]
Description
Carapace width is approximately 12–13 mm in adult males and 8–9 mm in adult females.[1][5] Displaying males exhibit bright blue green carapaces.[5]
Distribution
The crab can be found in Central America (Panama), South America (Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and Brazil ), and the Caribbean (Curaçao, Jamaica, and Trinidad).[2][5] In Brazil, the crab can be found along the coast between the states of Para and Rio de Janeiro.[2][6]
Habitat
The species lives in brackish environments of low to moderate salinity, including mangrove stands and open mudflats.[2] It lives on sandy silt and sandy clay substrate, and prefers substrate with at least some clay incorporated within it.[1][2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Koch, Volker; Wolff, Matthias; Diele, Karen (2005). "Comparative population dynamics of four fiddler crabs (Ocypodidae, genus Uca) from a North Brazilian mangrove ecosystem". Marine Ecology Progress Series 291: 177–188. https://www.int-res.com/articles/meps2005/291/m291p177.pdf.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Thurman, Carl L.; Faria, Samuel C.; McNamara, John C. (2013). "The distribution of fiddler crabs (Uca) along the coast of Brazil: implications for biogeography of the western Atlantic Ocean". Marine Biodiversity Records 6: e1.
- ↑ 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: 139–175. https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/app/uploads/2017/06/64rbz139-175.pdf.
- ↑ 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. https://academic.oup.com/jcb/article/39/6/729/5614985.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Crane, Jocelyn (1975). Fiddler Crabs of the World. Ocypodidae: Genus Uca. New Jersey, USA: Princeton University Press. https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/15051/15051-001.pdf.
- ↑ Melo, Gustavo Augusto Schmidt (1996). Manual de identificação dos Brachyura (caranguejos e siris) do litoral Brasileiro. São Paulo: Plêiade/FAPESP.
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