Austruca

Austruca
Austruca citrus Citrus fiddle crab, Fiji
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Ocypodidae
Subfamily:	Gelasiminae
Tribe:	Gelasimni
Genus:	Austruca Bott, 1973

Austruca is a genus of Indo-west Pacific fiddler crabs in the family Ocypodidae. There are about 13 described species in this genus. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Austruca was formerly a subgenus of Uca , but in 2016 it was elevated in rank to genus. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Species

These 13 species belong to the genus Austruca:

• Austruca albimana (Kossmann, 1877) (white-handed fiddler crab)
• Austruca annulipes (H.Milne Edwards, 1837) (ring-legged fiddler crab)
• Austruca bengali (bengal fiddler crab)
• Austruca citrus (citrus fiddler crab)
• Austruca cryptica (Naderloo, Türkay & Chen, 2010) (cryptic fiddler crab)
• Austruca iranica (Pretzmann, 1971) (Iranian fiddler crab)
• Austruca lactea (De Haan, 1835) (milky fiddler crab)
• Austruca mjoebergi (Rathbun, 1924) (banana fiddler crab)
• Austruca occidentalis (Naderloo, Schubart & Shih, 2016) (East African fiddler crab)
• Austruca perplexa (H.Milne Edwards, 1852) (perplexing fiddler crab)
• Austruca sindensis (Alcock, 1900) (indus fiddler crab)
• Austruca triangularis (A.Milne-Edwards, 1873) (triangular fiddler crab)
• Austruca variegata (Heller, 1862) (motley fiddler crab)

• 
  Austruca mjoebergi
  Banana fiddler crab, Australia
• 
  Austruca perplexa
  Perplexing fiddler crab
  Australia

References

1. "Austruca Bott, 1973". Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 2020-11-24.
2. Shih, Hsi-Te; Ng, Peter K. L.; Davie, Peter J.F.; Schubart, Christoph D.; et al. (2016). "Systematics of the family Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Crustacea: Brachyura), based on phylogenetic relationships, with a reorganization of subfamily rankings and a review of the taxonomic status of Uca Leach, 1814, sensu lato and its subgenera". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 64.
3. Rosenberg, Michael S. (2019). "A fresh look at the biodiversity lexicon for fiddler crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae). Part 1: Taxonomy". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 39 (6).
4. WoRMS. "Austruca mjoebergi (Rathbun, 1924)". World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 2020-11-16.