Tubuca dussumieri
Species of crab
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Tubuca dussumieri is a species of fiddler crab that is found in the western and south Pacific including New Caledonia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, and northeastern Australia.[1][2]
| Tubuca dussumieri | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Ocypodidae |
| Subfamily: | Gelasiminae |
| Genus: | Tubuca |
| Species: | T. dussumieri |
| Binomial name | |
| Tubuca dussumieri (H. Milne Edwards, 1852) | |
Description
Tubuca dussumieri males have one claw that is significantly larger than the other, while females have two equal-sized smaller claws. It has a blue-black carapace.[3] The male claw is red or orange on the lower half and white to yellow on the upper half, with granules on the wrist and a gutter along the lower claw.[1] The width of the carapace is up to around 33 mm.[1] In Australia, it can be distinguished from Tubuca coarctata as the upper upper movable finger of the claw of Tubuca dussumieri is white or yellow white[1] with the lower finger mostly orange and the wrist (manus) blue-grey,[4] and that there is two rather than one grooves in the upper claw.[3]
Tubuca dussumieri was formerly a member of the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Tubuca, a former subgenus of Uca.[5][6]