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A fresh look at the biodiversity lexicon for fiddler crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae). Part 1: Taxonomy
Abstract
Fiddler crabs (Ocypodidae) have gone through a gradual series of taxonomic revisions and refinements over the last 40 years, culminating most recently with an expansion from a single genus into eleven different genera. I examine the opportunities presented by these revisions with respect to establishing formal names for previously established clades at a variety of taxonomic levels that were otherwise previously impossible to name due to historical compression of these crabs into a single genus, including the establishment or reestablishment of three tribes (Ucini, Gelasimini, and Minucini) and ten subgenera: Uca (Uca), Uca (Acanthoplax), Gelasimus (Gelasimus), Gelasimus (Mesuca), Austruca (Austruca), Austruca (Cuneatuca), Austruca (Sinduca), Tubuca (Tubuca), Tubuca (Australuca), and Tubuca (Angustuca). A previously overlooked synonymy between Gelasimus excisa (Nobili, 1906) and G. neocultrimana (Bott, 1973) is discussed, and the former name is adopted as valid.
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Rosenberg, M.S. (2019) A fresh look at the biodiversity lexicon for fiddler crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae). Part 1: Taxonomy. Journal of Crustacean Biology 39(6):729–738.
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