Uca lactea mjoebergi
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Uca lactea mjoebergi or U. mjoebergi is a species of fiddler crab discovered by and named after the Swedish zoologist Eric Mjöberg (1882-1938), member of a Swedish scientific expedition to Australia in the early 1900s.
The crab is found along the north and northwest coast of Australia (approximately from Dampier to the Gulf of Carpentaria and on Papua New Guinea's northwest coast [1]).
According to Crane (1975), the species U. mjoebergi should be classified as a subspecies of Uca lactea, which in turn is a member of the subgenus Celuca.
[edit] References
Crane J. 1975 "Fiddler Crabs of the World: Ocypodidae: Genus Uca." Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
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