Brilliant Fiddler Crab

Leptuca speciosa

Classification

Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Ocypodidae

Leptuca speciosa, commonly known as the brilliant fiddler crab or the longfinger fiddler crab, is a species of fiddler crab native to the southern United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Before 2016, the species was known as Uca speciosa. In 2016, the subgenus Leptuca was promoted to the genus level.

Distribution

Brilliant Fiddler Crab — (c) Ramon and Suzanne Vargas, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC-BY-SA

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 28

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Ramon and Suzanne Vargas, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC-BY-SA DescriptionLeptuca speciosa, Wikipedia contributors

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