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Uca (Minuca) pugnax (Smith, 1870) 
AphiaID: 158463

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Brachyura (Infraorder) > Eubrachyura (Section) > Thoracotremata (Subsection) > Ocypodoidea (Superfamily) > Ocypodidae (Family) > Ucinae (Subfamily) > Uca (Genus) > Uca (Minuca) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Uca (Minuca) Bott, 1973
Synonymised
taxa
  Gelasimus pugnax Smith, 1870
Ocypoda pusilla Rafinesque, 1817
Uca pugnax (Smith, 1870)
Sources  basis of record: Ng, P.K.L.; Guinot, D.; Davie, P.J.F. (2008). Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of the extant Brachyuran crabs of the world. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1-286. [details]

additional source: Williams, A.B. 1984. Shrimps, lobsters, and crabs of the Atlantic coast of the eastern United States, Maine to Florida. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington. 550 p. [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English mud fiddler  [details]
Distribution North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: Provincetown, Mass., to Daytona Beach Fla. [details]
Image 
Uca pugnax
Uca pugnax
added on 2008-12-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158463
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-26 07:43:32Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-01-20 06:47:20Z  changed  Davie, Peter
  
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  Citation: Davie, P. (2013). Uca (Minuca) pugnax (Smith, 1870). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158463 on 2013-05-24
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