Tubuca

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Tubuca
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Tubuca bellator
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Ocypodidae
Subfamily: Gelasiminae
Tribe: Gelasimini
Genus: Tubuca
Bott, 1973

Tubuca is a genus in Ocypodidae, a family of fiddler and ghost crabs. There are more than 20 described species in Tubuca. [1]

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Species

These 23 species belong to the genus Tubuca:

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References

  1. "Tubuca". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-06-06.

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