Gelasimus vocans | |
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male, Bako National Park, Malaysia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Family: | Ocypodidae |
Subfamily: | Gelasiminae |
Tribe: | Gelasimni |
Genus: | Gelasimus |
Species: | G. vocans
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Binomial name | |
Gelasimus vocans | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Gelasimus vocans is a species of fiddler crab. [2] It is found across the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea, Zanzibar and Madagascar to Indonesia and the central Pacific Ocean. [3] It lives in burrows up to 50 centimetres (20 in) deep. [3] Several forms of G. vocans have been recognised, with their authors often granting them the taxonomic rank of full species or subspecies. [4]
Gelasimus vocans was formerly in the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Gelasimus, a former subgenus of Uca. [2] [5] [6]
Gelasimus vocans | |
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male, Bako National Park, Malaysia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Family: | Ocypodidae |
Subfamily: | Gelasiminae |
Tribe: | Gelasimni |
Genus: | Gelasimus |
Species: | G. vocans
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Binomial name | |
Gelasimus vocans | |
Synonyms [1] | |
|
Gelasimus vocans is a species of fiddler crab. [2] It is found across the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea, Zanzibar and Madagascar to Indonesia and the central Pacific Ocean. [3] It lives in burrows up to 50 centimetres (20 in) deep. [3] Several forms of G. vocans have been recognised, with their authors often granting them the taxonomic rank of full species or subspecies. [4]
Gelasimus vocans was formerly in the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Gelasimus, a former subgenus of Uca. [2] [5] [6]