''Tubuca urvillei'' is a species of
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 th ...
. It is found in the Southeastern
Africa
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from southern
Somalia
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to the
South Africa
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and
Madagascar
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.
''Tubuca urvillei'' was formerly a member of the genus ''
Uca
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 sexually dimorphic claws; the males' major claw is much larger than the minor claw, whil ...
'', but in 2016 it was placed in the genus ''
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' ...
'', a former subgenus of ''Uca''.
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Description
Carapace of male is broadly triangular and directed laterally. Anterolateral margin is short and slightly long. Major cheliped with dactylus usually longer than palm. Carapace of female is acutely triangular. Anterolateral margin absent.
References
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Ocypodoidea
Crustaceans of Africa
Crustaceans described in 1852