Biology:Minuca longisignalis
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Short description: Species of crab
| Minuca longisignalis | |
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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: | Minuca |
| Species: | M. longisignalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Minuca longisignalis (Salmon & Atsaides, 1968)
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Minuca longisignalis, the longwave gulf fiddler, is a species of American broad-front fiddler crab in the family Ocypodidae.[1][2][3]
Minuca longisignalis was formerly in the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Minuca, a former subgenus of Uca.[4][3][5]
Predation
This crab is prey to frogs, toads, gulls, herons, mangrove rails, willets, Atlantic blue crabs, mud crabs, Gulf killifishes, red drums, spotted bass, jellyfish, raccoons, marsh rice rats, diamondback terrapins, snakes, and skinks.[6]
References
- ↑ "Minuca longisignalis". https://www.gbif.org/species/9279534.
- ↑ "Minuca longisignalis species Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/467444.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "WoRMS taxon details, Austruca mjoebergi (Rathbun, 1924)". http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=955186.
- ↑ Uca longisignalis (Gulf marsh fiddler). Animal Diversity Web. https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Uca_longisignalis/
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 ☰ Q4470647 entry
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