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West African Fiddler Crab

Afruca tangeri

Classification

Afruca is a genus of fiddler crabs belonging to the family Ocypodidae. Afruca tangeri, the only species in this genus, lives along the Atlantic coasts of western Africa and southwestern Europe. Taxonomy Afruca tangeri was first described by Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux in 1835 as Gelasimus tangeri, but for many years it was part of the genus Uca, which at that time contained all fiddler crabs worldwide.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Spain · 323France · 1