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Atlantic Mangrove Fiddler Crab
Mary J. Rathbun, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Crabs

Atlantic Mangrove Fiddler Crab

Leptuca thayeri (Rathbun, 1900)

Names

EnglishAtlantic Mangrove Fiddler Crab
Dutch—
Spanish—
Chinese—
Sranan Tongokrabu (general name for the group)
Scientific nameLeptuca thayeri (Rathbun, 1900)

About this species

Leptuca thayeri, known generally as the Atlantic mangrove fiddler crab or mangrove fiddler, is a species of true crab in the family Ocypodidae. It is distributed all across the Western Atlantic.

Leptuca thayeri was formerly a member of the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Leptuca, a former subgenus of Uca.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassMalacostraca
OrderDecapoda
FamilyOcypodidae
GenusLeptuca

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