Tubuca alcocki

Tubuca alcocki
Tubuca alcocki holotype, Thailand
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Ocypodidae
Subfamily:	Gelasiminae
Genus:	Tubuca
Species:	T. alcocki
Binomial name
Tubuca alcocki Shih, Chan & Ng, 2018
Synonyms
Gelasimus acutusAlcock 1900 Gelasimus dussumieriA. Milne-Edwards 1868 Uca angustifronsLundoer 1974 Uca (Deltuca) [coarctata] urvilleiCrane 1975 Uca urvilleiFrith et al. 1976 Uca (Deltuca) urvilleiHogarth 1986 Uca (Deltuca) dussumieriKrishnan 1992 Uca (Tubuca) urvilleiBeinlich and von Hagen 2006 Uca (Tubuca) acutaTrivedi et al. 2015 Tubuca urvilleiShih et al. 2016

Tubuca alcocki is a species of fiddler crab. Its range includes most of the northern Indian Ocean, from western Thailand (facing the Andaman Sea), through the Bay of Bengal and India, to the Red Sea. ^{[1] [2]}

Etymology

The specific name alcocki is in honor of Alfred William Alcock, the naturalist who recorded the species from India and Pakistan as Uca urvillei. ^[1]

Ecology

It is a mangrove species which lives sympatric with Austruca annulipes , Austruca bengali , Tubuca forcipata , Tubuca paradussumieri and Austruca iranica . ^[1]

References

1. Shih, Hsi-Te; Chan, K.K.; Ng, Peter K.L. (2018). "Tubuca alcocki, a new pseudocryptic species of fiddler crab from the Indian Ocean, sister to the southeastern African T. urvillei (H. Milne Edwards, 1852) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Ocypodidae)". ZooKeys (747): 41–62. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.747.23468 . PMC   5904522 . PMID   29674902.
2. 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).