Uca (Tubuca) dussumieri (H. Milne Edwards, 1852 )

Shih, Hsi-Te, Lee, Jung-Hsiang, Ho, Ping-Ho, Liu, Hung-Chang, Wang, Chia-Hsiang, Suzuki, Hiroshi & Teng, Shao-Jyun, 2016, Species diversity of fiddler crabs, genus Uca Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Ocypodidae), from Taiwan and adjacent islands, with notes on the Japanese species, Zootaxa 4083 (1), pp. 57-82 : 73-74

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Uca (Tubuca) dussumieri (H. Milne Edwards, 1852) View in CoL

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Gelasimus dussumieri H. Milne Edwards, 1852: 148 View in CoL , pl. 4(12) [type locality: Java].

Gelasimus dubius Stimpson, 1858: 99 [type locality: Ryukyus]; 1907: 104; Sakai 1939: 621; Sakai 1940: 47 [list].

Uca dussumieri View in CoL — Sakai 1974: 10, 13; Takeda 1982: 207, 1 unnumbered fig.; Huang et al. 1989: 195, fig. 4, pl. 2E–H; Ho et al. 1993: 20; Okutani 1994a: 215, figs. 6; Yamaguchi 1994: 161; Wang & Liu 1996a: 42, 3 unnumbered figs.; Hung 2000: 140 -1, figs. 432–433; Lee 2001: 100, 4 unnumbered figs.; Ng et al. 2001: 37 [list]; Yoshigou 2001: 4, fig. 2, pl. 1B, C.; Shen & Jeng 2005: 162, 2 unnumbered figs.; Katsu 2007: 80, 4 unnumbered figs.; Liu & Wang 2010: 26, 36, 3 unnumbered figs.; Fujita & Uyeno 2015: 100, fig. 5D–F.

Uca dubia — Sakai 1936, 170; Miyake 1936: 511; 1938: 109; 1939: 222.

Uca dussumieri dussumieri View in CoL — Miyake 1963: 70; Yamaguchi 1994: 184; Ho 1996: 9, figs. 1–7; Chen 2001: 204, 2 unnumbered figs.; Nakasone & Irei 2003: 269, fig. 29A, B.

Uca (Deltuca) dussumieri dussumieri View in CoL — Crane 1975: 37, figs. 5, 8A, 9A, 34A, 36A, 37B, 52A–BB, 54C, 61F, 74A–K, pls. 2E– F, 3; Sakai 1976a: 602, text-figs. 328b, 329; Sakai 1976b: 32, 38, frontispiece fig. 3; Miyake 1983: 162, pl. 54(4); Nagai & Nomura 1988: 51, 1 unnumbered fig.; Shih 1994: 66, figs. 41–43.

Uca (Tubuca) dussumieri View in CoL —Ng et al. 2008: 242 [list]; Toyota & Seki 2014: 230, 4 unnumbered figs.

Material examined. Taiwan: 6 ♂♂ (15.3–25.0 mm) , 1 ♀ (21.5 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14716), Yanshuei R. estuary, Tainan, coll. J.- H. Lee et al., 4 Aug. 2009 ; 1 ovig. ♀ (21.5 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14720), Yanshuei R. estuary, Tainan, 2 July 2012 ; 1 ♂ (18.5 mm) (TMCD), Dapengwan, Pingtung, coll. C.-H. Wang, 14 July 1996; 1 ♀ (19.0 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14718), Dulanwan, Taitung, 7 Apr. 2001 . Penghu Islands: 1 ♀ (24.4 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14717), Cingluo, coll. H .- T. Shih , 14 Aug. 1996; 1 ovig. ♀ (17.3 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14719), Cingluo, coll. H .- T. Shih , 15 Aug. 1996; 1 ♂ (23.7 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14715), Citou, coll. H .- T. Shih et al., 19 Aug. 2009; 1 ♂ (15.8 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14721), Chihsi, Siyu, coll. H .-T. Shih, 19 May 2007. Ryukyus: 4 ♂♂ (11.5–14.5 mm), 1 ♀ (broken) ( TMCD), Yuhi R., Okinawa, 16 Apr. 1992 ; 2 ♂♂ (18.6, 29.8 mm), 1 ♀ (24.2 mm) (TMCD CHCD 718), Ishigaki, coll. H.-C. Liu, 13 July 1995.

Distribution. Western Pacific (Ryukyus, Taiwan [including Penghu], China (?), Philippines, Indonesia [including Sumatra], New Guinea).

Remarks. Gelasimus dubius Stimpson, 1858 is a synonym of U. dussumieri ( Miyake 1963; Crane 1975), but Sakai (1974, 1976a, b) considered the species a synonym of U. coarctata (see Discussion).

References

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Figures

FIGURE 7. Species of the subgenera Uca (Tubuca) (A – E) and Xeruca (F – H) from Taiwan. A – C, Uca dussumieri (H. Milne Edwards, 1852), male from Siyu, Penghu (A), male and female from the Baoli River estuary, Pingtung (B, C); D, E, U. paradussumieri Bott, 1973, male from the Houlong River estuary, Miaoli; F – H, U. formosensis Rathbun, 1921, males from Haishangu, Hsinchu (F, G), male from Cingluo, Penghu (H).