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Dancing Fiddler Crab
Leptuca terpsichores
Classification
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Ocypodidae
Leptuca terpsichores, commonly known as the dancing fiddler crab, is a species of fiddler crab native to the eastern Pacific coast of the Americas, from Nicaragua to Peru. Taxonomy Previously a member of the genus Uca, the species was transferred in 2016 to the genus Leptuca when Leptuca was promoted from subgenus to genus level. At one time, the species was considered a subspecies of L.
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Distribution
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
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