Tubuca flammula
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| image = Flame-backed fiddler crab 4878.jpg
| genus = Tubuca
| species = flammula
| authority = (Crane, 1975)
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Tubuca flammula, commonly known as the flame-backed fiddler crab is a species of fiddler crab that is found in the northwest of Western Australia, the northern part of the Northern Territory and the western half of Papua New Guinea{{cite web|url=http://museum.wa.gov.au/explore/articles/meet-flame-backed-fiddler-crab|title=Meet the Flame-backed Fiddler Crab|date=2017|website=Western Australian Museum|publisher=Government of Western Australia|access-date=2018-04-11}}{{cite web|url=https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:5e1ac5f6-74d2-4da8-8752-f6b135973a3a|title=Atlas of Living Australia|date=2018|website=ala.org.au|publisher=National Research Infrastructure for Australia, CSIRO|access-date=2018-04-11}}
Tubuca flammula was formerly a member of the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Tubuca, a former subgenus of Uca.
Description
Like other fiddler crabs, Tubuca flammula males have one claw that is significantly larger than the other, while females have two equal-sized smaller claws. It has a black carapace with two white or pinkish parallel marks running fore and aft near the centre and a solid red band across the front of the carapace. The claws are bright red-orange and the eyes are close together.{{cite web|url=http://www.fiddlercrab.info/blog/the-flame-backed-fiddler-crab-uca-flammula-fiddler-crab-of-the-week/|title=Fiddler Crab Reflections|date=20 March 2017|website=www.fiddlercrab.info|publisher=Michael Rosenberg|access-date=2018-04-11}}
References
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{{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 web| title= WoRMS taxon details, Tubuca flammula (Crane, 1975)
| url = http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=955315
| website = World Register of Marine Species
| access-date=2020-11-16
}}
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Category:Taxa named by Jocelyn Crane
Category:Crustaceans described in 1975
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