Uca

Uca

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ocypodoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Eucarida Ordo: Decapoda Subordo: Pleocyemata Infraordo: Brachyura Sectio: Eubrachyura Subsectio: Thoracotremata Superfamilia: Ocypodoidea

Familia: Ocypodidae
Subfamilia: Ocypodinae
Genus: Uca
Species: †U. hamlini – U. heteropleura – U. insignis – U. intermedia – U. major – U. maracoani – †U. miocenica – U. monilifera – †U. nitida – †U. oldroydi – U. ornata – U. princeps – U. stylifera

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Unaccepted names: †U. inaciobritoi

Name

Uca Leach, 1814

• Type species: Uca una Leach, 1814 accepted as Uca major (Herbst, 1782) (type by monotypy).

Synonymy

• Acanthoplax H. Milne Edwards, 1852
• Eurycheles Rathbun, 1914
• Gelasimus (Acanthoplax) (H. Milne Edwards, 1852)
• Heteruca Bott, 1973
• Uca (Uca) Leach, 1814

Note

• All subgenera are considered now separate genera (see Shih et al., 2016).

References

• Naderloo, R., Türkay, M. & Chen, H-l. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the wide-front fiddler crabs of the Uca lactea group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. Zootaxa 2500: 1–38. Preview
• Rosenberg, M.S. 2013: The nomenclatural status of the two “spiny-wristed” fiddler crabs: Uca spinicarpa Rathbun, 1900, and U. hesperiae Crane, 1975 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae). Zootaxa 3716(3): 494–500. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3716.3.10 Reference page. 
• Shih, H-T. 2015: Uca (Xeruca), a new subgenus for the Taiwanese fiddler crab Uca formosensis Rathbun, 1921 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae), based on morphological and molecular evidence. Zootaxa 3974(2): 159–161. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3974.2.1. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Shih, H-t. et al. 2010. Diversity and distribution of fiddler crabs (Brachyura: Ocypodidae: Uca) from China, with new records from Hainan Island in the South China Sea. Zootaxa 2640: 1–19. Preview
• Shih, H-T., Lee, J-H., Ho, P-H., Liu, H-C., Wang, C-H., Suzuki, H. & Teng, S-J. 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.Reference page. 
• Shih, H-T, Ng, P.K.L., Davie, P.J.F., Schubart, C.D., Türkay, M., Naderloo, R., Jones, D.S., & Liu, M-Y. 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. Raffles bulletin of zoology 64: 139–175. . Reference page. 
• Shih, H-T., Ng, P.K.L. & Christy, J.H. 2015. Uca (Petruca), a new subgenus for the rock fiddler crab Uca panamensis (Stimpson, 1859) from Central America, with comments on some species of the American broad-fronted subgenera. Zootaxa 4034(3): 471–494. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4034.3.3. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Winkerkrabben
English: Fiddler crab
español: Cangrejo violinista
հայերեն: Գելամոս
日本語: シオマネキ
Nederlands: Wenkkrabben
norsk nynorsk: Vinkekrabbe
português: Chama-maré
ไทย: ปูก้ามดาบ, ปูเปี้ยว
閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú: Kóng-sian-á
中文: 招潮蟹