Taxonomic Split 34889 (Committed on 2018-07-10) · iNaturalist Canada

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Ocypodidae. This happens when we can't automatically assign an identification to one of the output taxa. Review identifications of Uca 51930

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Taxonomic Split 34889 (Committed on 2018-07-10)

iNat's policy is to follow WoRMs for Crab (Brachyura) taxonomy. They adopted changes proposed in http://web.nchu.edu.tw/~htshih/acad/pdf/Shih&2016_Ocypodidae_revision_s.pdf to split Uca into two groups Broad-fronted and Indo-west Pacific Fiddler Crabs (Subfamily Gelasiminae) and American Narrow-fronted and East Atlantic Fiddler Crabs (Subfamily Ucinae). I wrote this blog post to try to alleviate some of the confusion these taxonomic changes have sown https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/fiddler-crabs/journal/17610-fiddler-crab-taxonomy

Source: WoRMS (Citation) | Group : Fiddler crab update

Added by loarie on July 10, 2018 05:16 AM | Committed by loarie on July 10, 2018

Uca 51930
1 observation Inactive

Covered by a taxon framework for Superclass Multicrustacea Sourced to World register of marine species

Relationship: Unknown

split into

Ucinae 485075
2248 observations Active Atlased

Covered by a taxon framework for Superclass Multicrustacea Sourced to World register of marine species

Relationship: Deviation
Gelasiminae 555951
30407 observations Active Atlased

Covered by a taxon framework for Superclass Multicrustacea Sourced to World register of marine species

Relationship: match

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