Minuca longisignalis
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| Minuca longisignalis | |
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| File:Fiddler Crab Gulf Coast.jpg | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Ocypodidae |
| Subfamily: | Gelasiminae |
| Tribe: | Minucini |
| Genus: | Minuca |
| Species: | M. longisignalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Minuca longisignalis (Salmon & Atsaides, 1968)
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Minuca longisignalis, the longwave gulf fiddler, is a species of American broad-front fiddler crab in the family Ocypodidae.[1][2][3]
Minuca longisignalis was formerly in the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Minuca, a former subgenus of Uca.[4][3][5]
Predation
[edit | edit source]This crab is prey to frogs, toads, gulls, herons, mangrove rails, willets, Atlantic blue crabs, mud crabs, Gulf killifishes, red drums, spotted bass, jellyfish, raccoons, marsh rice rats, diamondback terrapins, snakes, and skinks.[6]
References
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- ^ Uca longisignalis (Gulf marsh fiddler). Animal Diversity Web. https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Uca_longisignalis/
Further reading
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