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Figure 12
Medium
photograph
Date Created
5-2025
Keywords
Fiddler crabs;
Description
Alt Text: Composite photograph of the Leptuca subcylindrica fiddler crab which includes several black & white images of different views of the crab, a color photograph, and a distribution map.
Composite Image Description: Figure 12. Leptuca subcylindrica (Stimpson, 1859). UNI 98. Collected: July 1995, USA, Texas, Kleberg Co., Kingsville, under US 77 bridge over Santa Gertrudis Creek (27.47677, -97.855088). Space Bar = 10mm. (A) Dorsal view. (B) Front view. (C) Inner cheliped. (D) Ocular view. (E) Ambulatory. (F) Color Photo. (G) Distribution Map (Finke 2024).
Species Description: Moderate sized (width < 25 mm). Carapace length 66% width (Fig. 12A). Frontal regions about 37% carapace width (Fig. 12A, D). Short eyestalks. Branchial region of carapace appears swollen. Carapace widest just posterior to antero-lateral angle. Antero-lateral margins strongly curved (Fig. 12A). Large cheliped with dactyl and propodus about same length as manus, gap large (Fig. 12B,C). Dactyl overhangs terminus of pollex. Pollex with prominent suture below dactyl articulation (Fig. 12B). Tubercles on dactyl and pollex large. Inner manus with no oblique ridge of tubercles (Fig. 12C). Line of tubercles extends from tip of pollex along gap up to the articulation junction. Walking legs with extremely numerous long setae(Fig. 12E). Merus width 40% length. Species restricted to sub-arid coastal areas of the Laguna Madre system between Refugio Co., Texas in USA and Altamira, Lomas del Real, Tamaulipas, Mexico (Fig. 12G).
Object Description
1 PNG file
UNI Specimen Number
UNI 98
Year Collected
1995
Collection Location
27.47677, -97.855088
Gender
male
Copyright
©2025 Abby Hutchins, Amber Finke, and Carl L. Thurman
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
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Image
Language
en
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image/png
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Hutchins, Abby; Finke, Amber; and Thurman, Carl L., "Figure 012. Leptuca subcylindrica" (2025). Fiddler Crabs Image Gallery. 5.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/fiddlercrabs/5
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Keywords
Fiddler crabs;
Comments
This composite image is of the Leptuca subcylindrical fiddler crab. It is a part of the parent Fiddler Crabs Image Gallery collection at the University of Northern Iowa, which has images of Fiddler Crabs located in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico from the following genera: Afruca, Leptuca, Minuca, and Uca.