Leptuca panacea
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| Leptuca panacea | |
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| Gulf sand fiddler crab | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Ocypodidae |
| Subfamily: | Gelasiminae |
| Tribe: | Minucini |
| Genus: | Leptuca |
| Species: | L. panacea |
| Binomial name | |
| Leptuca panacea (Novak and Salmon, 1974) | |
Leptuca panacea, commonly known as the Gulf sand fiddler crab or the Panacea sand fiddler, is a species of fiddler crab native to coastal habitats along the Gulf of Mexico from northwestern Florida to Mexico.[1]
This species is the sister species of the Atlantic sand fiddler crab, L. pugilator.[2] The ranges of the two species overlap in northwestern Florida, where they are known to hybridize.[3]
Before 2016, the species was known as Uca panacea. In 2016, the subgenus Leptuca was promoted to the genus level.[2][4][5]
