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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Family: | Ocypodidae |
Subfamily: | Gelasiminae |
Genus: | Tubuca |
Species: | T. dussumieri
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Binomial name | |
Tubuca dussumieri (
H. Milne Edwards, 1852)
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Tubuca dussumieri, is a species of fiddler crab that is found in the western and south pacific including New Caledonia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, north eastern Australia [1] [2]
Tubuca dussumieri males have one claw that is significantly larger than the other, while females have two equal-sized smaller claws. It has a blue-black carapace. [3] The male claw is red or orange on the lower half and white to yellow on the upper half, with granules on the wrist and a gutter along the lower claw. [1] The width of the carapace is up to around 33 mm. [1] In Australia, it can be distinguished from Tubuca coarctata as the upper upper movable finger of the claw of Tubuca dussumieri is white or yellow white [1] with the lower finger mostly orange and the wrist (manus) blue-grey, [4] and that there is two rather than one grooves in the upper claw. [3]
Tubuca dussumieri was formerly a member of the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Tubuca, a former subgenus of Uca. [5] [6]
Tubuca dussumieri | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Family: | Ocypodidae |
Subfamily: | Gelasiminae |
Genus: | Tubuca |
Species: | T. dussumieri
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Binomial name | |
Tubuca dussumieri (
H. Milne Edwards, 1852)
|
Tubuca dussumieri, is a species of fiddler crab that is found in the western and south pacific including New Caledonia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, north eastern Australia [1] [2]
Tubuca dussumieri males have one claw that is significantly larger than the other, while females have two equal-sized smaller claws. It has a blue-black carapace. [3] The male claw is red or orange on the lower half and white to yellow on the upper half, with granules on the wrist and a gutter along the lower claw. [1] The width of the carapace is up to around 33 mm. [1] In Australia, it can be distinguished from Tubuca coarctata as the upper upper movable finger of the claw of Tubuca dussumieri is white or yellow white [1] with the lower finger mostly orange and the wrist (manus) blue-grey, [4] and that there is two rather than one grooves in the upper claw. [3]
Tubuca dussumieri was formerly a member of the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Tubuca, a former subgenus of Uca. [5] [6]