🦋 Family

Ocypodidae

39 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Ocypodidae

Paraleptuca crassipes (White, 1847)

Paraleptuca crassipes is a species with distinct color patterns that lives in mangrove habitats across the Indo-West Pacific.

Gelasimus vocans (Linnaeus, 1758)

Gelasimus vocans is a fiddler crab species from the Indo-Pacific that was reclassified into the genus Gelasimus in 2016.

Gelasimus vomeris (McNeill, 1920)

Gelasimus vomeris is a fiddler crab species with distinct coloration, mostly right-sided enlarged claws, found in intertidal muddy estuarine habitats.

Leptuca pugilator (Bosc, 1801)

Leptuca pugilator is a temperate fiddler crab found along North America's Atlantic and Gulf coasts with a male's signature enlarged claw.

Leptuca crenulata (Lockington, 1877)

Leptuca crenulata, the Mexican fiddler crab, is an American broad-front fiddler crab in Ocypodidae moved from Uca to Leptuca in 2016.

Leptuca uruguayensis (Nobili, 1901)

Leptuca uruguayensis is a South American crab native to Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina, found in moderate to high salinity habitats.

Leptuca leptodactyla (Rathbun, 1898)

Leptuca leptodactyla is a small crab found along the western Atlantic coast in brackish and saline sandy habitats.

Leptuca panacea (Novak & Salmon, 1974)

Leptuca panacea is a species with distinct male claw and color traits, found in specific sandy coastal habitats.

Leptuca thayeri (Rathbun, 1900)

Leptuca thayeri, the Atlantic mangrove fiddler crab, is a Western Atlantic mangrove-dwelling fiddler crab with key ecological impacts on sediment.

Minuca pugnax (Smith, 1870)

Minuca pugnax is a sexually dimorphic fiddler crab common to the US Atlantic east coast.

Minuca minax (Le Conte, 1855)

Minuca minax, the red-jointed fiddler crab, is a fiddler crab species with a distinct breeding and larval development cycle.

Minuca rapax (Smith, 1870)

Minuca rapax, the mudflat fiddler crab, is a species of crab in the family Ocypodidae.

Minuca longisignalis (Salmon & Atsaides, 1968)

Minuca longisignalis, the longwave gulf fiddler, is an American broad-front fiddler crab in the Ocypodidae family, reclassified to Minuca from Uca in 2016.