Austruca

<i>Austruca</i>

Austruca

Genus of crabs

Austruca (Meaning "Australian Uca) is a genus of indo-west Pacific fiddler crabs in the family Ocypodidae. There are about 13 described species in this genus.[1][2][3]

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Austruca perplexa

Austruca was formerly a subgenus of Uca, but in 2016 it was elevated in rank to genus.[2][3][4]

Species

These 13 species belong to the genus Austruca:

  • Austruca albimana (Kossmann, 1877) (white-handed fiddler crab)
  • Austruca annulipes (H.Milne Edwards, 1837) (ring-legged fiddler crab)
  • Austruca bengali (bengal fiddler crab)
  • Austruca citrus (citrus fiddler crab)
  • Austruca cryptica (Naderloo, Türkay & Chen, 2010) (cryptic fiddler crab)
  • Austruca iranica (Pretzmann, 1971) (Iranian fiddler crab)
  • Austruca lactea (De Haan, 1835) (milky fiddler crab)
  • Austruca mjoebergi (Rathbun, 1924) (banana fiddler crab)
  • Austruca occidentalis (Naderloo, Schubart & Shih, 2016) (East African fiddler crab)
  • Austruca perplexa (H.Milne Edwards, 1852) (perplexing fiddler crab)
  • Austruca sindensis (Alcock, 1900) (indus fiddler crab)
  • Austruca triangularis (A.Milne-Edwards, 1873) (triangular fiddler crab)
  • Austruca variegata (Heller, 1862) (motley fiddler crab)

References

  1. [1]
    "Austruca". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  2. [2]
    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.
  3. [3]
    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).
  4. [4]
    "WoRMS taxon details, Austruca mjoebergi (Rathbun, 1924)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2020-11-16.


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