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Tubuca Polita
''Tubuca polita'', commonly known as the polished fiddler crab. or pink-clawed fiddler crab is a species of fiddler crab that is found in the northern part of Australia including the Torres Strait Islands ''Tubuca polita'' was formerly a member of the genus ''Uca'', but in 2016 it was placed in the genus ''Tubuca'', a former subgenus of ''Uca''. The name ''polita'' comes from the unusually smooth ("polished") surface of the "manus" (the lower claw and wrist). Description Like other fiddler crabs, ''Tubuca polita'' males have one claw that is significantly larger than the other, while females have two equal-sized smaller claws. It has a brown and blue-black carapace with cream or grey green marbling, or in some areas yellow or occasionally orange or pink. The male claw has a rose pink hand with white fingers. The width of the carapace is up to around 25 mm. This species is found adjacent to mangroves on the seaward side. They live in mud or sandy mud, in burrows, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jocelyn Crane
Jocelyn Crane (June 11, 1909 – December 16, 1998), aka Jocelyn Crane-Griffin, was an American carcinologist, most famous for her research on the fiddler crab and her work with the New York Zoological Society’s (now the Wildlife Conservation Society) Department of Tropical Research. She became a key figure and expert in ethology – concentrating on the behavior of tropical animals, jumping spiders, praying mantises, butterflies and most importantly, fiddler crabs. Her lifelong research on fiddler crabs—researching their morphology, systematics, biogeography and behavior—was published in her 1975 seminal work ''Fiddler Crabs of the World''. Biography Crane was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She was educated at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, graduating with a zoology degree in 1930. Career In 1930, she went straight from university to become a laboratory assistant on William Beebe’s staff for the Second Bermuda Oceanographic Expedition at the New York Zoologi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tubuca Polita, Tin Can Bay, Qld, Australia 2
''Tubuca'' is a genus in Ocypodidae, a family of fiddler and ghost crabs. There are more than 20 described species in ''Tubuca''. Species These 23 species belong to the genus ''Tubuca'': * ''Tubuca acuta'' (Stimpson, 1858) * ''Tubuca alcocki'' Shih, Chan & Ng, 2018 * ''Tubuca arcuata'' (De Haan, 1835) * ''Tubuca australiae'' (Crane, 1975) * ''Tubuca bellator'' (White, 1847) * ''Tubuca capricornis'' (Crane, 1975) * ''Tubuca coarctata'' (H.Milne Edwards, 1852) * ''Tubuca demani'' (Ortmann, 1897) * ''Tubuca dussumieri'' (H.Milne Edwards, 1852) * ''Tubuca elegans'' (George & Jones, 1982) * ''Tubuca flammula'' (Crane, 1975) * ''Tubuca forcipata'' (Adams & White, 1849) * ''Tubuca hirsutimanus'' (George & Jones, 1982) * ''Tubuca longidigitum'' (Kingsley, 1880) * ''Tubuca paradussumieri'' (Bott, 1973) * '' Tubuca polita'' (Crane, 1975) * ''Tubuca rhizophorae'' (Tweedie, 1950) * ''Tubuca rhizophoriae'' * '' Tubuca rosea'' (Tweedie, 1937) * ''Tubuca seismella'' (Crane, 1975) * '' Tubuca si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiddler Crab
The fiddler crab or calling crab may be any of more than one hundred species of semiterrestrial marine crabs in the family Ocypodidae, well known for their sexual dimorphism, sexually dimorphic claws; the males' major claw is much larger than the minor claw, while the females' claws are both the same size. A smaller number of ghost crab and mangrove crab species are also found in the family Ocypodidae. This entire group is composed of small crabs, the largest being slightly over two inches (5 cm) across. Fiddler crabs are found along sea beaches and brackish intertidal mud flats, lagoons, swamps, and various other types of brackish or salt-water wetlands. Like all crabs, fiddler crabs molting, shed their shells as they grow. If they have lost legs or claws during their present growth cycle, a new one will be present when they molt. If the large fiddle claw is lost, males will develop one on the same side after their next molt. Newly molted crabs are very vulnerable because o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torres Strait Islands
The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait, a waterway separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea. They span an area of , but their total land area is . The Islands have been inhabited by the indigenous Torres Strait Islanders. Lieutenant James Cook first claimed British sovereignty over the eastern part of Australia at Possession Island, Queensland, Possession Island in 1770, but British administrative control only began in the Torres Strait Islands in 1862. The islands are now mostly part of Queensland, a constituent State of the Australia, Commonwealth of Australia, but are administered by the Torres Strait Regional Authority, a statutory authority of the Australian federal government. A few islands very close to the coast of mainland New Guinea belong to the Western Province (Papua New Guinea), Western Province of Papua New Guinea, most importantly Daru Island with the provin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tubuca
''Tubuca'' is a genus in Ocypodidae, a family of fiddler and ghost crabs. There are more than 20 described species in ''Tubuca''. Species These 23 species belong to the genus ''Tubuca'': * '' Tubuca acuta'' (Stimpson, 1858) * '' Tubuca alcocki'' Shih, Chan & Ng, 2018 * ''Tubuca arcuata'' (De Haan, 1835) * '' Tubuca australiae'' (Crane, 1975) * '' Tubuca bellator'' (White, 1847) * '' Tubuca capricornis'' (Crane, 1975) * ''Tubuca coarctata'' (H.Milne Edwards, 1852) * '' Tubuca demani'' (Ortmann, 1897) * '' Tubuca dussumieri'' (H.Milne Edwards, 1852) * '' Tubuca elegans'' (George & Jones, 1982) * '' Tubuca flammula'' (Crane, 1975) * ''Tubuca forcipata'' (Adams & White, 1849) * ''Tubuca hirsutimanus'' (George & Jones, 1982) * ''Tubuca longidigitum'' (Kingsley, 1880) * ''Tubuca paradussumieri'' (Bott, 1973) * ''Tubuca polita'' (Crane, 1975) * ''Tubuca rhizophorae'' (Tweedie, 1950) * ''Tubuca rhizophoriae'' * ''Tubuca rosea'' (Tweedie, 1937) * ''Tubuca seismella'' (Crane, 1975) * ''Tub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gelasimus Vomeris
''Gelasimus vomeris'' is a species of fiddler crab found in the southwest Pacific Ocean. In Australia, it is found in the east and north from Darwin to Sydney. It is commonly known as the two-toned fiddler crab, orange-clawed fiddler crab or Southern calling fiddler crab, however the common name orange-clawed fiddler crab is also used for the fiddler crab ''Tubuca coarctata''. Previous binomial names include ''Uca vomeris'' and ''Uca vocans vomeris''. Description The carapace is up to 30 mm across, black-brown with blue patches to varying extent. Adult males have an enlarged claw with a grey or pink upper finger, and orange lower finger and hand. Like other fiddler crabs the claw is used to scare or fight other males, and in waving displays to attract females. The lower male claw has a large triangular protection in the most distant part from the body. If caught, the colors of ''Gelasimus vomeris'' crabs will become less brilliant within minutes, and in response to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tubuca Seismella
''Tubuca'' is a genus in Ocypodidae, a family of fiddler and ghost crabs. There are more than 20 described species in ''Tubuca''. Species These 23 species belong to the genus ''Tubuca'': * ''Tubuca acuta'' (Stimpson, 1858) * '' Tubuca alcocki'' Shih, Chan & Ng, 2018 * '' Tubuca arcuata'' (De Haan, 1835) * '' Tubuca australiae'' (Crane, 1975) * '' Tubuca bellator'' (White, 1847) * ''Tubuca capricornis'' (Crane, 1975) * '' Tubuca coarctata'' (H.Milne Edwards, 1852) * ''Tubuca demani'' (Ortmann, 1897) * '' Tubuca dussumieri'' (H.Milne Edwards, 1852) * ''Tubuca elegans'' (George & Jones, 1982) * '' Tubuca flammula'' (Crane, 1975) * ''Tubuca forcipata'' (Adams & White, 1849) * ''Tubuca hirsutimanus'' (George & Jones, 1982) * ''Tubuca longidigitum'' (Kingsley, 1880) * ''Tubuca paradussumieri'' (Bott, 1973) * ''Tubuca polita'' (Crane, 1975) * ''Tubuca rhizophorae'' (Tweedie, 1950) * ''Tubuca rhizophoriae'' * ''Tubuca rosea'' (Tweedie, 1937) * ''Tubuca seismella'' (Crane, 1975) * ''Tubuc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ocypodoidea
The Ocypodoidea, or ocypoid crabs, are a superfamily of crabs, named after the genus ''Ocypode''. It contains over 300 extant species in these eight families: * Camptandriidae Stimpson, 1858 * Dotillidae Stimpson, 1858 * Heloeciidae H. Milne-Edwards, 1852 * Macrophthalmidae Dana, 1851 * Mictyridae Dana, 1851 * Ocypodidae The Ocypodidae are a family of semiterrestrial crabs that includes the ghost crabs and fiddler crabs. They are found on tropical and temperate shorelines around the world. Some genera previously included in the family are now treated as members o ... Rafinesque, 1815 * Ucididae Števčić, 2005 * Xenophthalmidae Stimpson, 1858 References Crabs Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque Arthropod superfamilies {{crab-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taxa Named By Jocelyn Crane
In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular name and given a particular ranking, especially if and when it is accepted or becomes established. It is very common, however, for taxonomists to remain at odds over what belongs to a taxon and the criteria used for inclusion. If a taxon is given a formal scientific name, its use is then governed by one of the nomenclature codes specifying which scientific name is correct for a particular grouping. Initial attempts at classifying and ordering organisms (plants and animals) were set forth in Carl Linnaeus's system in ''Systema Naturae'', 10th edition (1758), as well as an unpublished work by Bernard and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu. The idea of a unit-based system of biological classification was first made widely available in 1805 in the intro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
