Uca (Austruca) triangularis ( A. Milne-Edwards, 1873 )

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 : 62-63

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Uca (Austruca) triangularis ( A. Milne-Edwards, 1873) View in CoL

( Fig. 2F–H View FIGURE 2 )

Gelasimus triangularis A. Milne-Edwards, 1873: 275 View in CoL [type locality: New Caledonia].

Uca (Celuca) triangularis triangularis View in CoL — Crane 1975: 290, figs. 50, 51, 59B, C, 68D, E, pl. 38F–L; Sakai 1976a: 607, text-fig. 333; Wang 1984: 42; Dai et al. 1986: 427, fig. 237(1–3), pl. 59(4); Shih 1994: 100, fig. 67.

Uca triangularis View in CoL — Takeda 1982: 208, 1 unnumbered fig.; Fukui et al. 1989: 227, fig. 4; Huang et al. 1989: 192, fig. 1, pl. 1A– D; Ho et al. 1993: 20; Yamaguchi 1994: 178, fig. 13; Wang & Liu 1996a: 56, 2 unnumbered figs.; Hung 2000: 140 -1, figs.

426–427; Ng et al. 2001: 37 [list]; Yoshigou 2001: 4, fig. 2, pl. 1K; Shen & Jeng 2005: 169, 2 unnumbered figs.; Liu & Wang 2010: 44, 2 unnumbered figs.; Japanese Association of Benthology 2012: 216, 1 unnumbered fig.; Fujita & Uyeno 2015: 99, fig. 4C, D.

Uca (Celuca) triangularis View in CoL — Dai & Yang 1991: 467, fig. 237, pl. 59(4).

Uca triangularis triangularis View in CoL — Nakasone & Irei 2003: 269, fig. 31A, B, D.

Uca (Paraleptuca) triangularis View in CoL —Ng et al. 2008: 241 [list]; Toyota & Seki 2014: 227, 4 unnumbered figs.

Material examined. Taiwan: 2 ♂♂ (10.2, 11.5 mm) , 1 ♀ (11.9 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14709), Lanyang R. estuary, Yilan, 25 July 2004 ; 3 ♂♂ (11.4–13.0 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14745), Yanshuei R. estuary, Tainan, 4 Aug. 2009 ; 1 ♀ (8.7 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14711), Yanshuei R. estuary, Tainan, 18 Oct. 2011 ; 2 ♂♂ (9.1, 12.5 mm), 2 ♀♀ (8.8, 12.3 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14710), Baoli R. estuary, Pingtung, 14 Sep. 1997 ; 1 ♂ (13.2 mm), 1 ♀ (5.2 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14712), Baoli R. estuary, Pingtung, 20 July 2011 ; 5 ♂♂ (5.3–11.0 mm), 6 ♀♀ (5.0– 8.4 mm), 3 juv. ( TMCD), Beijyunjei, Taitung, 24 Apr. 1993 .

Distribution. Western Pacific (Ryukyus, Taiwan [including Penghu], Guangdong in China, Philippines, Borneo, Indonesia, New Guinea).

References

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Dai, A. - Y. & Yang, S. - L. (1991) Crabs of the China Seas. China Ocean Press, Beijing, 682 pp.

Fujita, Y. & Uyeno, D. (2015) Notes on some species of the genus Uca (Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) collected from Kume-jima Island, the Ryukyu Islands. Kumejima Shizen Bunka Senta kiyou, 11, 93 - 103. [In Japanese]

Fukui, Y., Wada, K. & Wang, C. - H. (1989) Ocypodidae, Mictyridae and Grapsidae (Crustacea: Brachyura) from some coasts of Taiwan. Journal of Taiwan Museum, 42, 225 - 238.

Ho, P. - H., Wang, C. - H., Lin, J. - T. & Yu, H. - P. (1993) First record of the fiddler crab Uca tetragonon (Herbst, 1790) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae) from Taiwan, with notes on its handedness. Journal of Taiwan Museum, 46, 17 - 25.

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Milne-Edwards, A. (1873) Recherches sur la faune carcinologique de la Nouvelle-Caledonie, II. Nouvelles Archives du Museum d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 9, 155 - 332, pls. 4 - 18.

Nakasone, Y. & Irei, M. (2003) Mictyridae, Ocypodidae, Grapsidae. In: Nishida, M., Shikatani, N. & Shokita, S. (Eds.), The Flora and Fauna of Inland Waters in the Ryukyu Islands. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, pp. 266 - 282. [In Japanese]

Sakai, T. (1976 a) Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, 773 pp., 251 pls.

Shen, Y. - L. & Jeng, M. - S. (2005) Crabs of Penghu. Fisheries Research Institute, COA, Keelung, Taiwan, vi + 239 pp. [In Chinese]

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Toyota, K. & Seki, S. (2014) Freshwater Shrimps and Crabs of Japan: 102 Species from Brackish and Fresh Water. Seibundo Shinkosha, Tokyo, 256 pp. [In Japanese]

Wang, C. - H. (1984) Primary studies on the crabs in Kenting National Park in Taiwan. Annual of Taiwan Museum, 27, 39 - 44. [In Chinese]

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Figures

FIGURE 2. Species of the subgenus Uca (Austruca) from Taiwan. A, B, Uca lactea (De Haan, 1835), two males with hood from Gaomei, Taichung and Dongshih, Chiayi, respectively; C – E, U. perplexa (H. Milne Edwards, 1837), three males from the Yanshuei River estuary, Tainan (C), from Siyu, Penghu (D), and from Dongsha Island (E); F – H, U. triangularis (A. Milne- Edwards, 1873), males from the Yanshuei River estuary, Tainan.