Biology:Ucides

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Short description: Genus of crabs

Ucides
Ucides cordatus cordatus.jpg
Ucides cordatus with a Rhizophora mangle leaf
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Ucididae

Števčić, 2005
Genus:
Ucides

Rathbun, 1897
Ucides cordatus distibuicao.svg
Range of U. cordatus (blue) and U. occidentalis (red)

Ucides is a genus of mangrove crabs in the monotypic family Ucididae, containing two species:[1]

  • Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763) – Atlantic coast from Florida to Uruguay
  • Ucides occidentalis (Ortmann, 1897) – Pacific coast from Mexico to Peru

References

  1. Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot; Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2306641 entry