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Tubuca urvillei

Male T. urvillei
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Ocypodidae
Subfamily:	Gelasiminae
Genus:	Tubuca
Species:	T. urvillei
Binomial name
*Tubuca urvillei* (H. Milne Edwards, 1852)
Synonyms
Gelasimus arcuatus Krauss 1843 Gelasimus dussumieri A. Milne-Edwards 1868 Uca arcuata Stebbing 1905 Uca arcuatus Stebbing 1917 Uca dussumieri Maccagno 1928 Uca urvillei Barnard 1950 Tubuca urvillei Bott 1973 Uca (Uca) dussumieri Hartnoll 1975 Uca (Uca) urvillei Hartnoll 1975 Uca (Deltuca) [coarctata] urvillei Crane 1975 Uca (Deltuca) urvillei Vannini and Valmori 1981 Uca (Tubuca) urvillei Bouchard et al. 2013

Tubuca urvillei is a species of fiddler crab. It is found in Southeastern Africa from southern Somalia to South Africa and Madagascar.

Tubuca urvillei was formerly a member of the genus Uca, but in 2016, it was placed in the genus Tubuca, a former subgenus of Uca.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Description

The carapace of a male is broadly triangular and directed laterally. The anterolateral margin is short and slightly long. The major cheliped with dactylus is usually longer than palm. The carapace of female is acutely triangular. The anterolateral margin was absent.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ 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.
^ 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).
^ "WoRMS taxon details, Tubuca urvillei (H. Milne Edwards, 1852)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2020-11-16.

Taxon identifiers
Tubuca urvillei	Wikidata: Q99012797 BOLD: 798488 CoL: 59JYJ GBIF: 9378331 iNaturalist: 567175 NCBI: 1647984 OBIS: 955326 Open Tree of Life: 2981595 WoRMS: 955326
Uca urvillei	Wikidata: Q14510207 GBIF: 4382584 iNaturalist: 67480 IRMNG: 10804997 Open Tree of Life: 2981595 SeaLifeBase: 162645 WoRMS: 207590

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