Uca (Gelasimus) vocans (Linnaeus, 1758)

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 : 66-67

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Uca (Gelasimus) vocans (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

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Uca (Thalassuca) vocans vocans View in CoL — Crane 1975: 92, figs. 38I, L, 56B, 60C–E, 64F, FF, pl. 14E–H; Sakai 1976a: 605, pl. 208(3) (part); Miyake 1983: 163, pl. 55(2); Dai et al. 1986: 423, fig. 234(1, 2), pl. 58(7); Nagai & Nomura 1988: 52, 1 unnumbered fig.; Dai & Yang 1991: 463, fig. 234, pl. 58(7).

Uca vocans View in CoL — Takeda 1982: 207, 1 unnumbered fig.; Okutani 1994a: 214, fig. 5; Yamaguchi 1994: 181; Yoshigou 2001: 4, fig. 2, pl. 1H; Japanese Association of Benthology 2012: 216, 1 unnumbered fig.; Fujita & Uyeno 2015: 96, fig. 3A–C.

Uca borealis View in CoL — Hung 2000: 140 -1, figs. 428–429, 1 unnumbered figs. (part); Shen & Jeng 2005: 157, 1 unnumbered figs. (part) (not Uca borealis Crane, 1975 View in CoL ).

Uca vocans vocans View in CoL — Nakasone & Irei 2003: 269, fig. 31E; Katsu 2007: 94, 6 unnumbered figs.

Uca (Gelasimus) vocans View in CoL —Ng et al. 2008: 240 [list]; Toyota & Seki 2014: 223, 4 unnumbered figs.

Material examined. Taiwan: 1 ovig. ♀ (19.2 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14723), Yanshuei R. estuary, Tainan, 7 Apr. 2011 ; 1 ♂ (15.7 mm) (NCHUZOOL 13168), Dapengwan, Pingtung, coll. H.- T. Shih, 9 Jan. 2001 ; 1 ♂ (12.7 mm) ( TMCD CHCD 477 ), Houwan, Pingtung, coll. H.- C. Liu, 2 Aug. 1994 ; 1 ♂ (20.4 mm) ( TMCD CHCD 792 ), Dulanwan, Taitung, 22 Apr. 1994 . Penghu Islands: 5 ♂♂ (21.6–24.1 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14733), Cingluo, 18 Aug. 2009 ; 1 ♀ (18.8 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14724), Caiyuan, 11 Aug. 2010; 1 ♂ (24.2 mm) (TMCD CHCD 1516), Chihsi, Siyu, coll. H.-C. Liu, 6 Oct. 1997; 2 ♂♂ (16.4, 28.1 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14731), Chihsi, Siyu, Penghu, coll. H.- T. Shih et al., 28 June 2006 ; 2 ♂♂ (9.0, 26.1 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14732), Chihsi, Siyu, Penghu, 11 Nov. 2007 . Ryukyus: 4 ♂♂ (17.3–20.6 mm, 1 broken) (TMCD CHCD 711), Amami, coll. H.-C. Liu, 14 July 1995; 7 ♂♂ (11.4–19.1 mm), 5 ♀♀ (14.2–16.6 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14706), Sashiki, Okinawa, 28 Dec. 2011 ; 4 ♂♂ (11.7– 15.3 mm), 1 ♀ (17.5 mm), TMCD, Ishikawa, Yamada, Okinawa , 18 Mar. 1992 ; 13 ♂♂ (8.4–21.1 mm), 1 ♀ (13.5 mm), TMCD, Ishikawa, Yamada, Okinawa , 17 Apr. 1992 ; 3 ♂♂ (11.4–18.0 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14708), Okukubi R., Okinawa, coll. T. Naruse, 25 Feb. 2002 ; 1 ♂ (11.6 mm) (NCHUZOOL 14704), Yabuchi I., Okinawa, 29 May 2014 ; 6 ♂♂ (14.9–22.6 mm), 1 ♀ (19.6 mm) ( TMCD CHCD 695 ), Nagura Bay , Ishigaki, coll. H.- C. Liu, 13 July 1995 ; 1 ♂ (22.1 mm), TMCD, Iriomote, coll. K. Wada, 17 Oct. 1982.

Distribution. Western Pacific and eastern Indian Ocean (Ryukyus, Taiwan [including Penghu] Hainan in China, Philippines, Borneo, Indonesia, Malay Peninsula, Thailand, Myanmar).

Remarks. See Remarks under U. borealis for a morphological comparison of the three species of U. vocans complex. And see Discussion for the distribution of U. vocans in Taiwan and Japan. This is a new record for Taiwan.

References

Japanese Association of Benthology (2012) Threatened Animals of Japanese Tidal Flats: Red Data Book of Seashore Benthos. Tokai University Press, Hatano, Japan, xvii + 285 pp. [In Japanese]

Crane, J. (1975) Fiddler Crabs of the World (Ocypodidae: Genus Uca). Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, xxiii + 736 pp.

Dai, A. - Y., Yang, S. - L., Song, Y. - Z. & Chen, G. - X. (1986) Crabs of the China Seas. China Ocean Press, Beijing, 642 pp. [In Chinese]

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]

Hung, K. - H. (2000) Common Marine Biology in Penghu. Bureau of Culture, Penghu County, Penghu, Taiwan, 218 pp. [In Chinese]

Katsu, H. (2007) A Guide to the Rare Organisms of Amami - Plants, Mammals, Arthropods, etc. Nanpou Shinsha, Kagoshima, Japan, 105 pp. [In Japanese]

Miyake, S. (1983) Japanese Crustacean Decapods and Stomatopods in Color. II Brachyura (Crabs). Hoikusha, Osaka, Japan, 277 pp. [In Japanese]

Nagai, S. & Nomura, K. (1988) Marine Animals of Okinawa, No. 7 (Crustacea). Shinsei Tosho Publication, Okinawa, Japan, 250 pp. [In Japanese]

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]

Okutani, T. (1994 a) Living Things of Coral Reefs. Yama-Kei Publisher, Tokyo, 320 pp. [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]

Takeda, M. (1982) Keys to the Japanese and Foreign Crustaceans Fully Illustrated in Colors. Hokuryukan Ltd., Tokyo, 58 + 284 pp. [In Japanese]

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]

Yamaguchi, T. (1994) Fiddler crabs of the genus Uca in the collections of three natural history museums in Europe. 1. The specimens held by the Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden and the Natural History Museum, London. Calanus, 11, 151 - 189.

Yoshigou, H. (2001) Japanese species of genus Uca (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae) and distribution of U. lactea in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Hibakagaku, 200, 1 - 12, 1 pl. [In Japanese]

Figures

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.