Tubuca urvillei

Tubuca urvillei is a species of fiddler crab. It is found in Southeastern Africa from southern Somalia to South Africa and Madagascar.

Tubuca urvillei
Male T. urvillei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Ocypodidae
Subfamily:	Gelasiminae
Genus:	Tubuca
Species:	T. urvillei
Binomial name
Tubuca urvillei (H. Milne Edwards, 1852)
Synonyms
Gelasimus arcuatus Krauss 1843 Gelasimus dussumieri A. Milne-Edwards 1868 Uca arcuata Stebbing 1905 Uca arcuatus Stebbing 1917 Uca dussumieri Maccagno 1928 Uca urvillei Barnard 1950 Tubuca urvillei Bott 1973 Uca (Uca) dussumieri Hartnoll 1975 Uca (Uca) urvillei Hartnoll 1975 Uca (Deltuca) [coarctata] urvillei Crane 1975 Uca (Deltuca) urvillei Vannini and Valmori 1981 Uca (Tubuca) urvillei Bouchard et al. 2013

Tubuca urvillei was formerly a member of the genus Uca, but in 2016, it was placed in the genus Tubuca, a former subgenus of Uca.^[1][2][3]

Description

Figure of T. urvillei

The carapace of a male is broadly triangular and directed laterally. The anterolateral margin is short and slightly long. The major cheliped with dactylus is usually longer than palm. The carapace of female is acutely triangular. The anterolateral margin was absent.^{[citation needed]}