Biology:Leptuca leptodactyla
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Short description: Species of crab
| Leptuca leptodactyla | |
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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. leptodactyla
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| Binomial name | |
| Leptuca leptodactyla (Rathbun, 1898)
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| Synonyms | |
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Uca leptodactyla (basionym) | |
Leptuca leptodactyla, commonly known as the thin-fingered fiddler crab or the western Atlantic fiddler crab, is a species of fiddler crab native to the western Atlantic coast of the Americas.[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
The carapace can be up to 13mm wide.[4]
Distribution
The range of the crab includes southern Florida, Mexico, the West Indies, Venezuela, and Brazil.[1][5][6] Within Brazil, the crab is present along the coast between the states of Maranhão and Santa Catarina.[5]
Habitat
The species lives in brackish and saline environments, including mangrove stands and intertidal sand flats.[6][7][8] It prefers sandy substrate.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Masunari, Setuko (2012). "Hood construction as an indication of the breeding period of the fiddler crab Uca (Leptuca) leptodactyla Rathbun, 1898 (Decapoda, Ocypodidae) from Guaratuba Bay, southern Brazil.". Crustaceana 85 (10): 1153–1169. doi:10.1163/156854012X651277. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41720763.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Masunari, Setuko; Swiech-Ayoub, Bianca de Paula (2003). "Crescimento relativo em Uca leptodactyla Rathbun (Crustacea Decapoda Ocypodidae).". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 20 (3): 487–491. doi:10.1590/S0101-81752003000300020. http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ac3d/8d56b74bfc87b8557bf5da5b7fa897f189f2.pdf.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Melo, Gustavo Augusto Schmidt (1996). "Manual de identificação dos Brachyura (caranguejos e siris) do litoral Brasileiro". Plêiade/FAPESP, São Paulo.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 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. doi:10.1017/S1755267212000942. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/marine-biodiversity-records/article/abs/distribution-of-fiddler-crabs-uca-along-the-coast-of-brazil-implications-for-biogeography-of-the-western-atlantic-ocean/1C3152051DC15D38EA9825D6A0CFED44.
- ↑ Bezerra, Luis Ernesto Arruda; Matthews-Cascon, Helena (2006). "Population structure of the fiddler crab Uca leptodactyla Rathbun, 1898 (Brachyura: Ocypodidae) in a tropical mangrove of northeast Brazil". Thalassas 22 (1). https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/60343445/Population_Structure_of_the_Fiddler_Crab20190820-17845-lk2tyj-with-cover-page-v2.pdf?Expires=1629919733&Signature=L6sn6a42BsbKz1CWejOyKtbCNSJwsDSRfpH6Z-dpWF~rBzcgZLzA8~FqYO9gjRtUUwOsIb42XeEjsmQFu6oaVuWRRLMnruUksLZSU95MQsVTV04wtI8uOmeYUhzZLy9WBQcVr-QFJj-DnbKOoXEU6w8dNh~irG5UwG16nSVA9HuUDWKZTgh87B0JMz3hlCb9auRuaXjS8vKfGGI9QV~U5~KaH03bqp~LicDkIZJwtZq1jfM3B-4wm1myqEbI4bviuC2m3g~vAh6o-elMsJVJ876MkCvluAMzoF2odnGDx~D2ZfhPk9y0zYE-2OtT5aEyPoChLpWx5X1l-8jgaMNs4Q__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA.
- ↑ Masunari, Setuko (2006). "Distribuição e abundância dos caranguejos Uca Leach (Crustacea, Decapoda, Ocypodidae) na Baía de Guaratuba, Paraná, Brasil". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 23 (4): 901–914. doi:10.1590/S0101-81752006000400001. https://www.scielo.br/j/rbzool/a/9yZbG94B7YnstLYBtD4tkRq/?format=pdf&lang=pt.
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