Austruca

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Citrus fiddle crab, Fiji

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Austruca is a genus of Indo-west Pacific fiddler crabs in the family Ocypodidae. There are about 13 described species in this genus.

Austruca was formerly a subgenus of Uca, but in 2016 it was elevated in rank to genus.

Species

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)

Austruca mjoebergi coenobita.jpg|Austruca mjoebergi
Banana fiddler crab, Australia

Fiddler Crab - Australia.jpg|Austruca perplexa
Perplexing fiddler crab
Australia

References

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{{GBIF| title=Austruca Bott, 1973| id=4646674| access-date=2020-11-24}}

{{Cite journal| title = 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| date = 2016| last1 = Shih | first1 = Hsi-Te| last2 = Ng | first2 = Peter K. L.| last3 = Davie | first3 = Peter J.F.| last4 = Schubart | first4 = Christoph D.| last5 = Türkay | first5 = Michael| last6 = Naderloo | first6 = Reza| last7 = Jones | first7 = Diana| last8 = Liu | first8 = Min-Yun| display-authors = 4| journal = The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology| volume = 64| url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305766283}}

{{Cite journal| title = A fresh look at the biodiversity lexicon for fiddler crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae). Part 1: Taxonomy| date = 2019| last1 = Rosenberg | first1 = Michael S.| journal = Journal of Crustacean Biology| volume = 39| issue = 6| url = https://academic.oup.com/jcb/article/39/6/729/5614985}}

{{Cite taxon |WoRMS| title=Austruca mjoebergi (Rathbun, 1924)| id=955186| access-date=2020-11-16}}

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Category:Ocypodoidea