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Leptuca panacea

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Leptuca panacea
Gulf sand fiddler crab
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Ocypodidae
Subfamily: Gelasiminae
Tribe: Minucini
Genus: Leptuca
Species:
L. panacea
Binomial name
Leptuca panacea
(Novak and Salmon, 1974)

Leptuca panacea, commonly known as the Gulf sand fiddler crab or the Panacea sand fiddler, is a species of fiddler crab native to coastal habitats along the Gulf of Mexico from northwestern Florida to Mexico.[1]

Taxonomy

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This species is the sister species of the Atlantic sand fiddler crab, L. pugilator.[2] The ranges of the two species overlap in northwestern Florida, where they are known to hybridize.[3]

Before 2016, the species was known as Uca panacea. In 2016, the subgenus Leptuca was promoted to the genus level.[2][4][5]

Description

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The large claw of the male is smooth, lacking any tuberculate ridges.[3] The inner margin of the carapace is bright orange to orangish-red.

Habitat

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The species lives in salt marshes or open sand flats on sand or sandy-mud substrata.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Hopkins, Melanie J.; Thurman, Carl L. (2010). "The geographic structure of morphological variation in eight species of fiddler crabs (Ocypodidae: genus Uca) from the eastern United States and Mexico". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 100 (1): 248–270. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01402.x. S2CID 82678219.
  2. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c Heard, Richard W. (1982). "Guide to common tidal marsh invertebrates of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico". MASGP-79-004. NOAA, Office of Sea Grant.
  4. ^ 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).
  5. ^ "WoRMS taxon details, Austruca mjoebergi (Rathbun, 1924)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2020-11-16.