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

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