Biology:Tubuca flammula
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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: | Gelasimini |
| Genus: | Tubuca |
| Species: | T. flammula
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| Binomial name | |
| Tubuca flammula (Crane, 1975)
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Tubuca flammula, commonly known as the flame-backed fiddler crab is a species of fiddler crab that is found in the northwest of Western Australia, the northern part of the Northern Territory and the western half of Papua New Guinea[1][2]
Tubuca flammula was formerly a member of the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Tubuca, a former subgenus of Uca.[3][4][5]
Description
Like other fiddler crabs, Tubuca flammula males have one claw that is significantly larger than the other, while females have two equal-sized smaller claws. It has a black carapace with two white or pinkish parallel marks running fore and aft near the centre and a solid red band across the front of the carapace. The claws are bright red-orange and the eyes are close together.[6]
References
- ↑ "Meet the Flame-backed Fiddler Crab". Government of Western Australia. 2017. http://museum.wa.gov.au/explore/articles/meet-flame-backed-fiddler-crab.
- ↑ "Atlas of Living Australia". National Research Infrastructure for Australia, CSIRO. 2018. https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:5e1ac5f6-74d2-4da8-8752-f6b135973a3a.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "WoRMS taxon details, Tubuca flammula (Crane, 1975)". http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=955315.
- ↑ "Fiddler Crab Reflections". Michael Rosenberg. 20 March 2017. http://www.fiddlercrab.info/blog/the-flame-backed-fiddler-crab-uca-flammula-fiddler-crab-of-the-week/.
Wikidata ☰ Q14510198 entry
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