Gelasimus vocans

Gelasimus vocans
male, Bako National Park, Malaysia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Ocypodidae
Subfamily: Gelasiminae
Tribe: Gelasimni
Genus: Gelasimus
Species:
G. vocans
Binomial name
Gelasimus vocans
Synonyms [1]
  • Cancer vocans Linnaeus, 1758
  • Gelasimus cultrimanus White, 1847
  • Gelasimus marionis Desmarest, 1823
  • Gelasimus nitidus Dana, 1851
  • Ocypode citharoedicus Say, 1817
  • Uca marionis forma excisa Nobili, 1906
  • Uca vocans (Linnaeus, 1758)

Gelasimus vocans is a species of fiddler crab.[2] It is found across the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea, Zanzibar and Madagascar to Indonesia and the central Pacific Ocean.[3] It lives in burrows up to 50 centimetres (20 in) deep.[3] Several forms of G. vocans have been recognised, with their authors often granting them the taxonomic rank of full species or subspecies.[4]

Gelasimus vocans was formerly in the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Gelasimus, a former subgenus of Uca.[2][5][6]

  1. ^ Ng, Peter K. L.; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
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  3. ^ a b David Gillikin & Anouk Verheyden (2002). "Uca vocans (Linnaeus, 1758)". A field guide to Kenyan mangroves. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved February 3, 2011.
  4. ^ Raoul Serène (1973). "The names of the forms of Uca vocans (Linnaeus) (Decapoda, Ocypodidae)". Crustaceana. 24 (3): 337–339. doi:10.1163/156854073x00722. JSTOR 20101997.
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