Tubuca flammula
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Ocypodidae |
| Subfamily: | Gelasiminae |
| Tribe: | Gelasimini |
| Genus: | Tubuca |
| Species: | T. flammula
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| Binomial name | |
| Tubuca flammula (Crane, 1975)
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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
- ^ "Meet the Flame-backed Fiddler Crab". Western Australian Museum. Government of Western Australia. 2017. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ "Atlas of Living Australia". ala.org.au. National Research Infrastructure for Australia, CSIRO. 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ 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 flammula (Crane, 1975)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ^ "Fiddler Crab Reflections". www.fiddlercrab.info. Michael Rosenberg. 20 March 2017. Retrieved 2018-04-11.