Leptuca panacea
| Leptuca panacea | |
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| Gulf sand fiddler crab | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Ocypodidae |
| Subfamily: | Gelasiminae |
| Tribe: | Minucini |
| Genus: | Leptuca |
| Species: | L. panacea
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| Binomial name | |
| Leptuca panacea (Novak and Salmon, 1974)
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Leptuca panacea, commonly known as the Gulf sand fiddler crab or the Panacea sand fiddler, is a species of fiddler crab native to coastal habitats along the Gulf of Mexico from northwestern Florida to Mexico.[1]
Taxonomy[edit]
This species is the sister species of the Atlantic sand fiddler crab, L. pugilator.[2] The ranges of the two species overlap in northwestern Florida, where they are known to hybridize.[3]
Before 2016, the species was known as Uca panacea. In 2016, the subgenus Leptuca was promoted to the genus level.[2][4][5]
Description[edit]
The large claw of the male is smooth, lacking any tuberculate ridges.[3] The inner margin of the carapace is bright orange to orangish-red.
Habitat[edit]
The species lives in salt marshes or open sand flats on sand or sandy-mud substrata.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Hopkins, Melanie J.; Thurman, Carl L. (2010). "The geographic structure of morphological variation in eight species of fiddler crabs (Ocypodidae: genus Uca) from the eastern United States and Mexico". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 100 (1): 248–270. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01402.x. S2CID 82678219.
- ^ a b 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". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 64.
- ^ a b c Heard, Richard W. (1982). "Guide to common tidal marsh invertebrates of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico". MASGP-79-004. NOAA, Office of Sea Grant.
- ^ 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).
- ^ "WoRMS taxon details, Austruca mjoebergi (Rathbun, 1924)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
