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(Redirected from Uca vocans) Species of fiddler crab

Gelasimus vocans
male, Bako National Park, Malaysia
Scientific classification Edit this 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
Binomial name
Gelasimus vocans
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms 
  • Cancer vocans Linnaeus, 1758
  • Gelasimus cultrimanus White, 1847
  • Gelasimus marionis Desmarest, 1823
  • Gelasimus nitidus Dana, 1851
  • Ocypode citharoedicus Say, 1817
  • Uca marionis forma excisa Nobili, 1906
  • Uca vocans (Linnaeus, 1758)

Gelasimus vocans is a species of fiddler crab. It is found across the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea, Zanzibar and Madagascar to Indonesia and the central Pacific Ocean. It lives in burrows up to 50 centimetres (20 in) deep. Several forms of G. vocans have been recognised, with their authors often granting them the taxonomic rank of full species or subspecies.

Gelasimus vocans was formerly in the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Gelasimus, a former subgenus of Uca.

References

  1. Ng, Peter K. L.; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
  2. ^ "Gelasimus vocans (Linnaeus, 1758)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2022. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  3. ^ David Gillikin & Anouk Verheyden (2002). "Uca vocans (Linnaeus, 1758)". A field guide to Kenyan mangroves. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved February 3, 2011.
  4. Raoul Serène (1973). "The names of the forms of Uca vocans (Linnaeus) (Decapoda, Ocypodidae)". Crustaceana. 24 (3): 337–339. doi:10.1163/156854073x00722. JSTOR 20101997.
  5. 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: 139–175. doi:10.5281/zenodo.5355087.
  6. 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): 729–738. doi:10.1093/jcbiol/ruz057.
Taxon identifiers
Gelasimus vocans
Uca vocans
Cancer vocans


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