Austruca
| Austruca | |
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| Austruca mjoebergi, banana fiddler crab, Australia | |
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: | Gelasimni |
| Genus: | Austruca Bott, 1973 |
Austruca (Meaning "Australian Uca) is a genus of indo-west Pacific fiddler crabs in the family Ocypodidae. There are about 13 described species in this genus.[1][2][3]
Austruca was formerly a subgenus of Uca, but in 2016 it was elevated in rank to genus.[2][3][4]
Species[edit]
These 13 species belong to the genus Austruca:
- Austruca albimana (Kossmann, 1877) (white-handed fiddler crab)
- Austruca annulipes (H.Milne Edwards, 1837) (ring-legged fiddler crab)
- Austruca bengali (bengal fiddler crab)
- Austruca citrus (citrus fiddler crab)
- Austruca cryptica (Naderloo, Türkay & Chen, 2010) (cryptic fiddler crab)
- Austruca iranica (Pretzmann, 1971) (Iranian fiddler crab)
- Austruca lactea (De Haan, 1835) (milky fiddler crab)
- Austruca mjoebergi (Rathbun, 1924) (banana fiddler crab)
- Austruca occidentalis (Naderloo, Schubart & Shih, 2016) (East African fiddler crab)
- Austruca perplexa (H.Milne Edwards, 1852) (perplexing fiddler crab)
- Austruca sindensis (Alcock, 1900) (indus fiddler crab)
- Austruca triangularis (A.Milne-Edwards, 1873) (triangular fiddler crab)
- Austruca variegata (Heller, 1862) (motley fiddler crab)
References[edit]
- ^ "Austruca". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b 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, Austruca mjoebergi (Rathbun, 1924)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
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