Leptuca helleri
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| genus = Leptuca
| species = helleri
| authority = (Rathbun, 1902)
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| synonyms = Uca helleri (basionym)
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Leptuca helleri, commonly known as Heller's fiddler crab, is a species of fiddler crab endemic to the Galapagos Islands in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Taxonomy
Description
The carapace can be up to 12 mm wide in the largest male individuals.
References
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{{Cite book
| title = Fiddler Crabs of the World. Ocypodidae: Genus Uca
| date = 1975
| last1 = Crane | first1 = Jocelyn
| publisher = Princeton University Press |location=New Jersey, USA
| url = https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/15051/15051-001.pdf
{{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 |pages=139–175
| url = https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/app/uploads/2017/06/64rbz139-175.pdf
{{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 |pages=729–738
| doi=10.1093/jcbiol/ruz057 | url = https://academic.oup.com/jcb/article/39/6/729/5614985
| doi-access = free
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Category:Crustaceans of the eastern Pacific Ocean
Category:Endemic fauna of the Galápagos Islands