WoRMS taxon details
Uca (Gelasimus) vocans (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 207597
AphiaID: 207597
| 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 (Gelasimus) (Subgenus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Uca (Gelasimus) Latreille, 1817 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cancer vocans Linnaeus, 1758 Gelasimus cultrimanus White, 1847 Gelasimus marionis Desmarest, 1823 Gelasimus nitidus Dana, 1851 Ocypode citharoedicus Say, 1817 Uca (Thalassuca) vocans Uca marionis (Desmarest, 1823) Uca marionis cultrimana (Adams & White) Uca marionis excisa Nobili, 1906 Uca marionis f. excisa Nobili, 1906 Uca vocans excisa (Nobili, 1906) Uca vocans vocans (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Hartnoll, R.G. (1975). The Grapsidae and Ocypodidae (Decapoda: Brachyura) of Tanzania. J. Zool. London 177, 305-328 [details] additional source: 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] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| All child taxa [hide all] | Subspecies Uca vocans excisa (Nobili, 1906) accepted as Uca (Gelasimus) vocans (Linnaeus, 1758) Subspecies Uca vocans hesperiae Crane, 1975 accepted as Uca (Gelasimus) hesperiae Crane, 1975 Subspecies Uca vocans pacificensis Crane, 1975 accepted as Uca (Gelasimus) neocultrimana Bott, 1973 Subspecies Uca vocans vocans (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Uca (Gelasimus) vocans (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Eastern Africa & Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Eritrea [details] Indian Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Indo-Pacific [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mayotte Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Mozambique [details] New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Transkei [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal | ||||||||||
| Note |
Habitat: Burrows in beaches with mangrove vegetation. [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207597 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Davie, P. (2013). Uca (Gelasimus) vocans (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207597 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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