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genus Uca - fiddler crabs

arthropod genus - a genus of arthropods

Brachyura, suborder Brachyura - an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface

fiddler crab - burrowing crab of American coastal regions having one claw much enlarged in the male

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Materials for a more stable subdivision of the genus Uca Leach.

The fiddler crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae: genus Uca) of the South Atlantic Ocean.

Population biology and morphometric sexual maturity of the fiddler crab Uca (Uca) maracoani (Latreille, 1802) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae) in a semi-arid tropical estuary of northeastern Brazil

The genus Uca and the family Sesarmidae are the two most important taxa in South African mangroves in terms of abundance (Skov et al.

serrata and those belonging to the genus Uca. However, species capable of surviving these conditions, such as N.

Temporal variations in the diversity of true crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) in the St Lucia Estuary, South Africa

Crabs of the genus Uca are a good example for this phenomenon, as males use their hypertrophied cheliped during courtship [40].

Rosenberg, "Fiddler crab claw shape variation: a geometric morphometric analysis across the genus Uca (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae)," Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol.

Sexual shape dimorphism of the mangrove crab Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763) (Decapoda, Ucididae) accessed through geometric morphometric

1A, lane 19) contained four distinct bands (see also Markl, 1986; Johnson, 1987), none of which co-migrated with any bands found in the genus Uca (Figs.

In the genus Uca, Hc [O.sub.2] affinities were generally distinctive but often become indistinguishable at high pH.

Subunit composition and O2 binding of the crustacean hemocyanins: interspecific relationships

The fiddler crab genus Uca is a well-known group of brachyuran crabs, characterized by having strong sexual dimorphism and male asymmetry (Rosenberg, 2001).

A total of 897 individuals of the genus Uca were collected, of which 387 (43.1%) were U.

Estructura de la poblacion y fecundidad en Uca virens Salmon & Atsaides, 1968 (Decapoda: Ocypodidae) en el sur de la Laguna de Tamiahua, Veracruz, Mexico