Uca (Gelasimus) jocelynae Shih, Naruse & Ng, 2010

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 : 64

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4083.1.3

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6069874

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scientific name

Uca (Gelasimus) jocelynae Shih, Naruse & Ng, 2010
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Uca (Gelasimus) jocelynae Shih, Naruse & Ng, 2010 View in CoL

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Uca (Gelasimus) jocelynae Shih, Naruse & Ng, 2010a: 51 View in CoL , figs. 2–4 [type locality: Penghu, Taiwan]; Shih 2012b: 64, figs. 90– 93; Toyota & Seki 2014: 221, 4 unnumbered figs. (see Shih et al. 2010a for list of citation of synonyms) Uca jocelynae View in CoL — Shih 2012b: 64, figs. 90–93; Fujita & Uyeno 2015: 98, fig. 3D–F.

Material examined. (See Shih et al. 2010a for specimens from Taiwan [including Penghu] and the Ryukyus ) Dongsha Island : 1 ♂ (16.2 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14735) , 1 ♂ (14.1 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14736), 3 Sep. 2011; 2 ♂♂ (14.9, 15.0 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14728), 19 Nov. 2011; 1 ♂ (18.1 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14729), 23 Mar. 2012; 1 ♂ (11.8 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14730), 24 Mar. 2012; 1 ♂ (17.5 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14734), 26 May 2012.

Distribution. Widely distributed on the western Pacific islands (Ryukyus, Taiwan [including Penghu and Dongsha], Guam, the Philippines, Sulawesi, Papua New Guinea, and Vanuatu.

Remarks. Uca jocelynae is found in the western part (west to Vanuatu) of the western Pacific, in contrast to the range of its sister species U. neocultrimana (east to Fiji) ( Shih et al. 2010a: fig. 1). See Remarks under U. borealis for the morphological comparison of the three species of the U. vocans complex.

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]

Shih, H. - T., Naruse, T. & Ng, P. K. L. (2010 a) Uca jocelynae sp. nov., a new species of fiddler crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) from the Western Pacific. Zootaxa, 2337, 47 - 62.

Shih, H. - T. (2012 b) Warrior - The Seashore Crabs of Dongsha Island. Marine National Park, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 159 pp. [In Chinese]

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]

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FIGURE 3. Species of the subgenus Uca (Gelasimus). A, B, Uca borealis Crane, 1975, male from Yanshuei River estuary, Tainan, Taiwan; C, U. borealis, male from Miyazaki, Japan, with G 1 (D); E, F, U. jocelynae Shih, Naruse & Ng, 2010, males from Siyu, Penghu, Taiwan; G, H, U. vocans (Linnaeus, 1758), males from Cingluo, Penghu, Taiwan.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Ocypodidae

Genus

Uca