Austruca

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
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 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)

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