Leptuca leptodactyla
{{Short description|Species of crab}}
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| genus = Leptuca
| species = leptodactyla
| authority = (Rathbun, 1898)
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| synonyms = Uca leptodactyla (basionym)
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Leptuca leptodactyla, commonly known as the thin-fingered fiddler crab or the western Atlantic fiddler crab, is a species of fiddler crab native to the western Atlantic coast of the Americas.
Taxonomy
Description
The carapace can be up to 13mm wide.
Distribution
Habitat
The species lives in brackish and saline environments, including mangrove stands and intertidal sand flats. It prefers sandy substrate.
References
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{{Cite journal
| title = Hood construction as an indication of the breeding period of the fiddler crab Uca (Leptuca) leptodactyla Rathbun, 1898 (Decapoda, Ocypodidae) from Guaratuba Bay, southern Brazil.
| date = 2012
| last1 = Masunari | first1 = Setuko
| journal = Crustaceana
| volume = 85| issue = 10
| pages = 1153–1169
| doi = 10.1163/156854012X651277
| jstor = 41720763
| url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/41720763
| url-access = subscription
{{Cite journal
| title = Crescimento relativo em Uca leptodactyla Rathbun (Crustacea Decapoda Ocypodidae).
| date = 2003
| last1 = Masunari | first1 = Setuko
| last2 = Swiech-Ayoub | first2 = Bianca de Paula
| journal = Revista Brasileira de Zoologia
| volume = 20| issue = 3
| pages = 487–491
| doi = 10.1590/S0101-81752003000300020
| doi-access = free
| url = http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ac3d/8d56b74bfc87b8557bf5da5b7fa897f189f2.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
| url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305766283
{{Cite journal
| title = Manual de identificação dos Brachyura (caranguejos e siris) do litoral Brasileiro
| date = 1996
| last1 = Melo | first1 = Gustavo Augusto Schmidt
| journal = Plêiade/FAPESP, São Paulo
{{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 journal
| title = Population structure of the fiddler crab Uca leptodactyla Rathbun, 1898 (Brachyura: Ocypodidae) in a tropical mangrove of northeast Brazil
| date = 2006
| last1 = Bezerra | first1 = Luis Ernesto Arruda
| last2 = Matthews-Cascon | first2 = Helena
| journal = Thalassas
| volume = 22| issue = 1
| url = https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/60343445/Population_Structure_of_the_Fiddler_Crab20190820-17845-lk2tyj-with-cover-page-v2.pdf?Expires=1629919733&Signature=L6sn6a42BsbKz1CWejOyKtbCNSJwsDSRfpH6Z-dpWF~rBzcgZLzA8~FqYO9gjRtUUwOsIb42XeEjsmQFu6oaVuWRRLMnruUksLZSU95MQsVTV04wtI8uOmeYUhzZLy9WBQcVr-QFJj-DnbKOoXEU6w8dNh~irG5UwG16nSVA9HuUDWKZTgh87B0JMz3hlCb9auRuaXjS8vKfGGI9QV~U5~KaH03bqp~LicDkIZJwtZq1jfM3B-4wm1myqEbI4bviuC2m3g~vAh6o-elMsJVJ876MkCvluAMzoF2odnGDx~D2ZfhPk9y0zYE-2OtT5aEyPoChLpWx5X1l-8jgaMNs4Q__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA
{{Cite journal
| title = Distribuição e abundância dos caranguejos Uca Leach (Crustacea, Decapoda, Ocypodidae) na Baía de Guaratuba, Paraná, Brasil
| date = 2006
| last1 = Masunari | first1 = Setuko
| journal = Revista Brasileira de Zoologia
| volume = 23
| issue = 4
| pages = 901–914
| doi = 10.1590/S0101-81752006000400001
| url = https://www.scielo.br/j/rbzool/a/9yZbG94B7YnstLYBtD4tkRq/?format=pdf&lang=pt
| doi-access = free
{{Cite journal
| title = The distribution of fiddler crabs (Uca) along the coast of Brazil: implications for biogeography of the western Atlantic Ocean
| date = 2013
| last1 = Thurman| first1 = Carl L.
| last2 = Faria | first2 = Samuel C.
| last3 = McNamara | first3 = John C.
| journal = Marine Biodiversity Records
| volume = 6
| doi = 10.1017/S1755267212000942
| url = https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/marine-biodiversity-records/article/abs/distribution-of-fiddler-crabs-uca-along-the-coast-of-brazil-implications-for-biogeography-of-the-western-atlantic-ocean/1C3152051DC15D38EA9825D6A0CFED44
| url-access = subscription
}}
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