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The fiddler crab or calling crab can be one of the hundred species of semiterrestrial marine crabs in the family Ocypodidae. [2] These crabs are well known for their extreme sexual dimorphism, where the male crabs have a major claw significantly larger than their minor claw, whilst females claws are both the same size. [3]
Leptuca pugilator, the sand fiddler crab, Atlantic sand fiddler crab, or Calico fiddler, is a species of fiddler crab that is found from Massachusetts to the Gulf of Mexico. It lives in burrows in coastal and estuarine mud-flats , and can be extremely abundant.
Leptuca speciosa, commonly known as the brilliant fiddler crab or the longfinger fiddler crab, is a species of fiddler crab native to the southern United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean. [1] Before 2016, the species was known as Uca speciosa. In 2016, the subgenus Leptuca was promoted to the genus level. [2] [3]
Leptuca thayeri, known generally as the Atlantic mangrove fiddler crab or mangrove fiddler, is a species of true crab in the family Ocypodidae. It is distributed all across the Western Atlantic. [1] Leptuca thayeri was formerly a member of the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Leptuca, a former subgenus of Uca. [2] [3] [4]
The Ocypodidae are a family of semiterrestrial crabs that includes the ghost crabs and fiddler crabs. They are found on tropical and temperate shorelines around the world. Some genera previously included in the family are now treated as members of separate families in the superfamily Ocypodoidea, such as the Dotillidae and Macrophthalmidae.
Leptuca coloradensis (Rathbun, 1893) (painted fiddler crab) Leptuca crenulata (Lockington, 1877) (Mexican fiddler crab) Leptuca cumulanta (Crane, 1943) (heaping fiddler crab) Leptuca deichmanni (Rathbun, 1935) (Deichmann's fiddler crab) Leptuca dorotheae (von Hagen, 1968) (Dorothy's fiddler crab) Leptuca festae (Nobili, 1902) (Festa's fiddler crab)
Leptuca cumulanta, commonly known as the heaping fiddler crab or the mangrove fiddler crab, is a species of fiddler crab native to tropical and subtropical areas of the western Atlantic. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Taxonomy
Leptuca deichmanni, commonly known as Deichmann's fiddler crab, is a species of fiddler crab native to the eastern Pacific coast of Central America, in Costa Rica and Panama. [ 1 ] Taxonomy