| 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 |
| 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
Description
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. 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. The width of the carapace is up to around 33 mm. 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 with the lower finger mostly orange and the wrist (manus) blue-grey, and that there is two rather than one grooves in the upper claw.
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.
References
- ^ Poupin, Joseph; Juncker, Matthieu (2010). "A guide to the decapod crustaceans of the South Pacific" (PDF). Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.
- Shih, Hsi-Te; Lee, Jung-Hsiang; Ho, Ping-Ho; Liu, Hung-Chang; et al. (2016). "Species diversity of fiddler crabs, genus Uca Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Ocypodidae), from Taiwan and adjacent islands, with notes on the Japanese species". Zootaxa. 4083 (1): 57–82. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4083.1.3. PMID 27394219. S2CID 23042277.
- ^ "A Revision of the Fiddler Crabs of Australia Ocypodinae (Uca)". Fiddler Crab Info. Western Australian Museum. 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- Robyn Howard. "Identifying Crabs at Maroochy Wetland Sanctuary" (PDF). Maroochy Wetland Sanctuary Group Inc. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
- 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". Zootaxa. 5026 (4): 480–506.
- 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).
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Uca dussumieri | |