Uca vocans

Uca vocans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Ocypodidae
Genus: Uca
Subgenus: Gelasimus
Species: U. vocans
Binomial name
Uca vocans
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms [1]
  • Cancer Vocans Linnaeus, 1758
  • Gelasimus marionis Desmarest, 1823
  • Ocypode citharoedicus say, 1817
  • Gelasimus nitidus Dana, 1851
  • Gelasimus cultrimanus White, 1847
  • Uca marionis forma excisa Nobili, 1906

Uca vocans is a species of fiddler crab. It is found across the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea, Zanzibar and Madagascar to Indonesia and the central Pacific Ocean.[2] It lives in burrows up to 50 centimetres (20 in) deep.[2] Several forms of U. vocans have been recognised, with their authors often granting them the taxonomic rank of full species or subspecies.[3]

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. 
  2. ^ a b David Gillikin & Anouk Verheyden (2002). "Uca vocans (Linnaeus, 1758)". A field guide to Kenyan mangroves. http://www.madeinnys.com/mangrove/u_vocans.htm. Retrieved February 3, 2011. 
  3. ^ Raoul Serène (1973). "The names of the forms of Uca vocans (Linnaeus) (Decapoda, Ocypodidae)". Crustaceana 24 (3): 337–339. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20101997.