Minuca longisignalis (Salmon & Atsaides, 1968) is a animal in the Ocypodidae family, order Decapoda, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Minuca longisignalis (Salmon & Atsaides, 1968)

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.

Family
Genus
Minuca
Order
Decapoda
Class
Malacostraca

About Minuca longisignalis (Salmon & Atsaides, 1968)

Minuca longisignalis, commonly known as the longwave gulf fiddler, is a species of American broad-front fiddler crab belonging to the family Ocypodidae. This species was originally described in 1968 by Salmon and Atsaides. Prior to 2016, it was classified under the genus Uca. In 2016, the species was moved to the genus Minuca, which was previously treated as a subgenus of Uca.

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Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Malacostraca Decapoda Ocypodidae Minuca

More from Ocypodidae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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