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Minuca argillicola

Clay Fiddler Crab

Type Description

Uca argillicola
Crane, J. (1941) Eastern Pacific Expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. XXVI. Crabs of the genus Uca from the west coast of Central America. Zoologica NY 26(3):145–208.

Information

Taxonomy
Subfamily GelasiminaeSupertribe GelasimitaeTribe MinuciniGenus Minuca
Common Names
English: Clay Fiddler Crab
Synonyms, Alternate Spellings, & Name Forms (Chronology)
Celuca argillicola, Minuca argillicola, Uca (Celuca) argillicola, Uca (Minuca) argillicola, Uca argillicola
Size
Small Carapace Breadth: 9.2 mm ± 0.91 (sd), 95% range: 7.5–11.0 mm (Data)
Geographic Range
Eastern Pacific Realm: Costa Rica to Colombia
Purple fiddler crabs indicate locations where this species is found according to the scientific record; blue fiddler crabs surrounded by a dashed circle indicate the same but for larger, general regions; green fiddler crabs indicate “research grade” observations imported from iNaturalist; yellow circles with a question mark indicate questionable records of this species from the scientific record; and red circles with an x indicate false or mistaken records from the scientific record.
Range map data derived from: Crane (1975); von Prahl (1982)
Associated Field Guides
Pacific Coasts of Colombia, Ecuador, and Northern Peru
Pacific Coasts of Costa Rica and Panama
External Links
Encyclopedia of Life
Wikipedia
iNaturalist
NCBI Taxonomy Browser/Genbank
GBIF

Photos

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Video

Male Minuca argillicola feeding outside of burrow
37 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Minuca argillicola retreating into burrow
14 sec., 352 × 240, MP4
Male Minuca argillicola feeding outside of burrow
25 sec., 352 × 240, MP4

Art

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References

Barnwell & Szelistowski (1985), Beinlich & von Hagen (2006), Crane (1941), Crane (1947), Crane (1975), Garth (1948), Hendrickx (1995), Hendrickx (1995), Invemar et al. (2006), Landstorfer & Schubart (2010), Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz (2007), Lemaitre & Alvarez León (1992), Levinton et al. (1996), Ng et al. (2008), Rosenberg (2000), Rosenberg (2001), Rosenberg (2002), Rosenberg (2019), Rosenberg (2020), Shih et al. (2016), Sturmbauer et al. (1996), Thurman (1979), Thurman et al. (2025), von Hagen (1987), von Prahl (1982)