Tubuca flammula | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Family: | Ocypodidae |
Subfamily: | Gelasiminae |
Tribe: | Gelasimini |
Genus: | Tubuca |
Species: | T. flammula
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Binomial name | |
Tubuca flammula (Crane, 1975)
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Tubuca flammula, commonly known as the flame-backed fiddler crab is a species of fiddler crab that is found in the northwest of Western Australia, the northern part of the Northern Territory and the western half of Papua New Guinea[1][2]
Tubuca flammula was formerly a member of the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Tubuca, a former subgenus of Uca.[3][4][5]
Like other fiddler crabs, Tubuca flammula males have one claw that is significantly larger than the other, while females have two equal-sized smaller claws. It has a black carapace with two white or pinkish parallel marks running fore and aft near the centre and a solid red band across the front of the carapace. The claws are bright red-orange and the eyes are close together.[6]