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Gulf marsh fiddler

Minuca longisignalis

Classification

Minuca longisignalis, the longwave gulf fiddler, is a species of American broad-front fiddler crab in the family Ocypodidae. Minuca longisignalis was formerly in the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Minuca, a former subgenus of Uca. Predation 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.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 206Mexico · 1