Tubuca dussumieri
Tubuca dussumieri, is a species of fiddler crab that is found in the western and south pacific including New Caledonia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, north eastern Australia[1][2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Ocypodidae |
| Subfamily: | Gelasiminae |
| Genus: | Tubuca |
| Species: | T. dussumieri |
| Binomial name | |
| Tubuca dussumieri (H. Milne Edwards, 1852) | |
Description
Tubuca dussumieri males have one claw that is significantly larger than the other, while females have two equal-sized smaller claws. It has a blue-black carapace.[3] The male claw is red or orange on the lower half and white to yellow on the upper half, with granules on the wrist and a gutter along the lower claw.[1] The width of the carapace is up to around 33 mm.[1] In Australia, it can be distinguished from Tubuca coarctata as the upper upper movable finger of the claw of Tubuca dussumieri is white or yellow white[1] with the lower finger mostly orange and the wrist (manus) blue-grey,[4] and that there is two rather than one grooves in the upper claw.[3]
Tubuca dussumieri was formerly a member of the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Tubuca, a former subgenus of Uca.[5][6]
References
- Poupin, Joseph; Juncker, Matthieu (2010). "A guide to the decapod crustaceans of the South Pacific" (PDF). Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.
- Shih, Hsi-Te; Lee, Jung-Hsiang; Ho, Ping-Ho; Liu, Hung-Chang; et al. (2016). "Species diversity of fiddler crabs, genus Uca Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Ocypodidae), from Taiwan and adjacent islands, with notes on the Japanese species". Zootaxa. 4083 (1): 57–82. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4083.1.3. PMID 27394219. S2CID 23042277.
- "A Revision of the Fiddler Crabs of Australia Ocypodinae (Uca)". Fiddler Crab Info. Western Australian Museum. 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- Robyn Howard. "Identifying Crabs at Maroochy Wetland Sanctuary" (PDF). Maroochy Wetland Sanctuary Group Inc. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
- 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". Zootaxa. 5026 (4): 480–506.
- 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).