Gelasimus vocans

Uca vocans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Ocypodidae
Genus:	Uca
Subgenus:	Gelasimus
Species:	U. vocans
Binomial name
	Uca vocans; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	Cancer Vocans Linnaeus, 1758; Gelasimus marionis Desmarest, 1823; Ocypode citharoedicus say, 1817; Gelasimus nitidus Dana, 1851; Gelasimus cultrimanus White, 1847; Uca marionis forma excisa Nobili, 1906;

Uca vocans is a species of fiddler crab. It is found across the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea, Zanzibar and Madagascar to Indonesia and the central Pacific Ocean.^[2] It lives in burrows up to 50 centimetres (20 in) deep.^[2] Several forms of U. vocans have been recognised, with their authors often granting them the taxonomic rank of full species or subspecies.^[3]

References

^ Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
^ ^a ^b David Gillikin & Anouk Verheyden (2002). "Uca vocans (Linnaeus, 1758)". A field guide to Kenyan mangroves. Retrieved February 3, 2011.
^ Raoul Serène (1973). "The names of the forms of Uca vocans (Linnaeus) (Decapoda, Ocypodidae)". Crustaceana. 24 (3): 337–339. doi:10.1163/156854073x00722. JSTOR 20101997.

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