Tubuca flammula

Tubuca flammula
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Ocypodidae
Subfamily:	Gelasiminae
Genus:	Tubuca
Species:	T. flammula
Binomial name
Tubuca flammula (Crane, 1975)

Tubuca flammula, commonly known as the flame-backed fiddler crab is a species of fiddler crab that is found in the northwest of Western Australia, the northern part of the Northern Territory and the western half of Papua New Guinea[1][2]

Tubuca flammula was formerly a member of the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Tubuca, a former subgenus of Uca.[3][4][5]

Description

Like other fiddler crabs, Tubuca flammula males have one claw that is significantly larger than the other, while females have two equal-sized smaller claws. It has a black carapace with two white or pinkish parallel marks running fore and aft near the centre and a solid red band across the front of the carapace. The claws are bright red-orange and the eyes are close together.[6]

References

1. "Meet the Flame-backed Fiddler Crab". Western Australian Museum. Government of Western Australia. 2017. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
2. "Atlas of Living Australia". ala.org.au. National Research Infrastructure for Australia, CSIRO. 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
3. 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.
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, Tubuca flammula (Crane, 1975)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
6. "Fiddler Crab Reflections". www.fiddlercrab.info. Michael Rosenberg. 20 March 2017. Retrieved 2018-04-11.