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Austruca lactea Milky Fiddler Crab

Austruca lactea is commonly referred to as Milky Fiddler Crab. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.


Profilbild Urheber Hitoshi Takakura (Flickr Brachyura), Japan

Austruca lactea, Jaüan 1994

Place: Nagaura-jima island, Kamiamakusa city, Kumamoto pref., Japan (intertidal flat).Comment: carapace width=2cm(approximately), male.No. 0001-02
Courtesy of the author Hitoshi Takakura (Flickr Brachyura), Japan . Please visit www.flickr.com for more information.

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lexID:
14873 
AphiaID:
955183 
Scientific:
Austruca lactea 
German:
Milky-Winkerkrabbe 
English:
Milky Fiddler Crab 
Category:
Mieszkańcy namorzynów 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Ocypodidae (Family) > Austruca (Genus) > lactea (Species) 
Initial determination:
(De Haan, ), 1835 
Occurrence:
Fiji, Indo Pacific, Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, South-Africa, Tansania 
Marine Zone:
Intertidal (Eulittoral), intertidal zone between the high and low tide lines characterized by the alternation of low and high tide down to 15 meters 
Sea depth:
0 - 15 Meter 
Habitats:
Intertidal zone, Tidal Zone, Mangrove Zones 
Size:
0.39" - 0.79" (1,5cm - 2,7cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Algae (Algivore), omnivore 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
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in this lexicon
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Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2024-06-07 14:09:17 

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Austruca lactea (De Haan, 1835)

Minuca rapax, also known by its common name mudflat fiddler crab, is a species from the genus Minuca. The most of fiddlers crabs occur on mangroves or along the shores, estuarine, burrowing in mud.

Synonymised names:
Gelasimus forceps H. Milne Edwards, 1837 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Gelasimus lacteus (De Haan, 1835) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Ocypode (Gelasimus) lactea De Haan, 1835 · unaccepted
Uca (Austruca) lactea (De Haan, 1835) · unaccepted
Uca (Paraleptuca) lactea (De Haan, 1835) · unaccepted
Uca (Paraleptuca) lactea annulipes (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) · unaccepted
Uca orientalis Nobili, 1901 · unaccepted

External links

  1. Architect in Milky Attire – hood-building behaviour of Austruca lactea (en). Abgerufen am 06.06.2022.
  2. Fiddler Crab Info (en). Abgerufen am 06.06.2022.
  3. Wikipedia (de). Abgerufen am 06.06.2022.
  4. Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 06.06.2022.

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