Uca (Paraleptuca) crassipes (White, 1847)

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 : 67-69

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Uca (Paraleptuca) crassipes (White, 1847) View in CoL

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Gelasimus crassipes White, 1847a: 84 View in CoL [type locality: Siquejor, Philippines]; White 1847b: 205; Adams & White 1848: 49.

Gelasimus gaimardi H. Milne Edwards, 1852: 150 View in CoL , pl. 4 fig. 17, 17a [type locality: Tongatabou]; Sakai 1939: 617 (part); 1940: 47 [list]; Lin 1949: 26 [list].

Gelasimus latreillei H. Milne Edwards, 1852: 150 View in CoL , pl. 4 fig. 20, 20a [type locality: Bora Bora]; Sakai 1939: 618; Sakai 1940: 47 [list].

Gelasimus pulchellus Stimpson, 1858: 100 [type locality: Tahiti]; 1907:107, pl. 13(1).

Uca pulchella — Parisi 1918: 93 (part).

Uca latreillei View in CoL — Balss 1922: 142.

Uca annulipes View in CoL — Miyake 1936: 511; 1938: 109; Sakai 1936: 170 (not Gelasimus annulipes H. Milne Edwards, 1837 View in CoL ).

Uca gaimardi View in CoL — Miyake 1939: 222, 241; Yamaguchi 1994: 163.

Gelasimus annulipes View in CoL — Sakai 1939: 616, pl. 104(4); 1940: 32 [list] (not Gelasimus annulipes H. Milne Edwards, 1837 View in CoL ).

Uca (Amphiuca) chlorophthalmus crassipes View in CoL — Crane 1975: 101, figs. 13A-1, 14, 26C, 37H, 39A, 56C, 60L–M, 68B, 81G, 82G, 83A, 99, pls. 15A–F, 46B (part); Sakai 1976a, text-fig. 332b, pl. 209(2–4) (part); Miyake 1983: 163, pl. 55(3); Wang 1984: 42; Nagai & Nomura 1988: 54, 1 unnumbered fig.; Shih 1994: 91, figs. 64–66 (part).

Uca (Paraleptuca) chlorophthalmus crassipes View in CoL — Takeda & Nunomura 1976: 80.

Uca crassipes View in CoL — Takeda 1982: 208, 1 unnumbered fig.; Huang et al. 1989: 193, fig. 2, pl. 1E–G (part); Ho et al. 1993: 20; Okutani 1994a: 214, figs. 2, 3; Wang & Liu 1996a: 54, 3 unnumbered figs.; Ng et al. 2001: 37 [list]; Katsu 2007: 88, 7 unnumbered figs.; Wang & Liu 2003: 77, figs. 74–76; Liu & Wang 2010: 28, 34, 3 unnumbered figs. (part); Japanese Association of Benthology 2012: 215, 1 unnumbered fig.; Shih 2012b: 15, 62, figs. 15, 87–89; Fujita & Uyeno 2015: 98, fig. 4A, B.

Uca chlorophthalmus crassipes View in CoL —Chen 2001: 206, 2 unnumbered figs.; Yoshigou 2001: 4, fig. 2, pl. 1I, J; Nakasone & Irei 2003: 269, fig. 31C.

Uca (Paraleptuca) crassipes View in CoL —Ng et al. 2008: 241 [list]; Toyota & Seki 2014: 224, 4 unnumbered figs.

Material examined. See Shih et al. (2012) for specimens examined from Taiwan (including Penghu and Dongsha) and the Ryukyus.

Distribution. Western Pacific ( Japan [including Ryukyus], Taiwan [including Penghu and Dongsha], Philippines, New Guinea, Australia), Central and South Pacific, and eastern Indian Ocean ( Thailand).

Remarks. Shih et al. (2012) separated U. splendida ( Stimpson, 1858) from U. crassipes and some old records U. crassipes have been revised (see Remarks under U. splendida ).

Parisi (1918) recorded U. crassipes (as U. pulchella (Stimpson, 1858)) from Misaki, Japan. Kudo & Yamada (2000) also mentioned a record from Wakayama, based on the communication with Dr. K. Wada. Uca crassipes is common in the Ryukyus. The record from “Tokaito coast: Oho Sima” deposited in the U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA (USNM 22288) ( Crane 1975) should be the island of Amami Oshima, in the central Ryukyus.

Previously the species from Ogasawara Islands has been identified as either U. lactea , U. pulchella , U. annulipes (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) or U. crassipes (see Shih et al. 2013), which was established as an endemic species, Uca (Paraleptuca) boninensis Shih, Komai & Liu, 2013 . This species is similar to U. crassipes , but has a moderately acute and produced anteriorly anterolateral angles, and longer anterolateral margins (compared to U. crassipes with anterolateral angles strongly acute, produced anterolaterally, anterolateral margins short or absent) and a relatively stouter G1 ( Shih et al. 2013).

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Figures

FIGURE 4. Species of the subgenera Uca (Gelasimus) (A, B), U. (Paraleptuca) (C – F), and U. (Tubuca) (G, H) from Taiwan. A, B, Uca tetragonon (Herbst, 1790), males from Siyu, Penghu; C, D, U. crassipes (White, 1847), male and female from Dongsha Island, respectively; E, F, U. splendida (Stimpson, 1858), male and female from Cingluo, Penghu; G, H, U. acuta (Stimpson, 1858), males from “ Formosa Is. ”, collected by R. Swinhoe (BM 58.162).