Uca (Paraleptuca) crassipes
Description
Uca (Paraleptuca) crassipes (White, 1847)
(Fig. 4C, D)
Gelasimus crassipes White, 1847a: 84 [type locality: Siquejor, Philippines]; White 1847b: 205; Adams & White 1848: 49.
Gelasimus gaimardi H. Milne Edwards, 1852: 150, pl. 4 fig. 17, 17a [type locality: Tongatabou]; Sakai 1939: 617 (part); 1940: 47 [list]; Lin 1949: 26 [list].
Gelasimus latreillei H. Milne Edwards, 1852: 150, pl. 4 fig. 20, 20a [type locality: Bora Bora]; Sakai 1939: 618; Sakai 1940: 47 [list].
Gelasimus pulchellus Stimpson, 1858: 100 [type locality: Tahiti]; 1907:107, pl. 13(1).
Uca pulchella — Parisi 1918: 93 (part).
Uca latreillei — Balss 1922: 142.
Uca annulipes — Miyake 1936: 511; 1938: 109; Sakai 1936: 170 (not Gelasimus annulipes H. Milne Edwards, 1837).
Uca gaimardi — Miyake 1939: 222, 241; Yamaguchi 1994: 163.
Gelasimus annulipes — Sakai 1939: 616, pl. 104(4); 1940: 32 [list] (not Gelasimus annulipes H. Milne Edwards, 1837).
Uca (Amphiuca) chlorophthalmus crassipes — Crane 1975: 101, figs. 13A-1, 14, 26C, 37H, 39A, 56C, 60L–M, 68B, 81G, 82G, 83A, 99, pls. 15A–F, 46B (part); Sakai 1976a, text-fig. 332b, pl. 209(2–4) (part); Miyake 1983: 163, pl. 55(3); Wang 1984: 42; Nagai & Nomura 1988: 54, 1 unnumbered fig.; Shih 1994: 91, figs. 64–66 (part).
Uca (Paraleptuca) chlorophthalmus crassipes — Takeda & Nunomura 1976: 80.
Uca crassipes — Takeda 1982: 208, 1 unnumbered fig.; Huang et al. 1989: 193, fig. 2, pl. 1E–G (part); Ho et al. 1993: 20; Okutani 1994a: 214, figs. 2, 3; Wang & Liu 1996a: 54, 3 unnumbered figs.; Ng et al. 2001: 37 [list]; Katsu 2007: 88, 7 unnumbered figs.; Wang & Liu 2003: 77, figs. 74–76; Liu & Wang 2010: 28, 34, 3 unnumbered figs. (part); Japanese Association of Benthology 2012: 215, 1 unnumbered fig.; Shih 2012b: 15, 62, figs. 15, 87–89; Fujita & Uyeno 2015: 98, fig. 4A, B.
Uca chlorophthalmus crassipes —Chen 2001: 206, 2 unnumbered figs.; Yoshigou 2001: 4, fig. 2, pl. 1I, J; Nakasone & Irei 2003: 269, fig. 31C.
Uca (Paraleptuca) crassipes —Ng et al. 2008: 241 [list]; Toyota & Seki 2014: 224, 4 unnumbered figs.
Material examined. See Shih et al. (2012) for specimens examined from Taiwan (including Penghu and Dongsha) and the Ryukyus.
Distribution. Western Pacific (Japan [including Ryukyus], Taiwan [including Penghu and Dongsha], Philippines, New Guinea, Australia), Central and South Pacific, and eastern Indian Ocean (Thailand).
Remarks. Shih et al. (2012) separated U. splendida (Stimpson, 1858) from U. crassipes and some old records U. crassipes have been revised (see Remarks under U. splendida).
Parisi (1918) recorded U. crassipes (as U. pulchella (Stimpson, 1858)) from Misaki, Japan. Kudo & Yamada (2000) also mentioned a record from Wakayama, based on the communication with Dr. K. Wada. Uca crassipes is common in the Ryukyus. The record from “Tokaito coast: Oho Sima” deposited in the U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA (USNM 22288) (Crane 1975) should be the island of Amami Oshima, in the central Ryukyus.
Previously the species from Ogasawara Islands has been identified as either U. lactea, U. pulchella, U. annulipes (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) or U. crassipes (see Shih et al. 2013), which was established as an endemic species, Uca (Paraleptuca) boninensis Shih, Komai & Liu, 2013. This species is similar to U. crassipes, but has a moderately acute and produced anteriorly anterolateral angles, and longer anterolateral margins (compared to U. crassipes with anterolateral angles strongly acute, produced anterolaterally, anterolateral margins short or absent) and a relatively stouter G1 (Shih et al. 2013).
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- White
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Ocypodidae
- Genus
- Uca
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- crassipes
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- Uca (Paraleptuca) crassipes (White, 1847) sec. Shih, Lee, Ho, Liu, Wang, Suzuki & Teng, 2016
References
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