Uca (Paraleptuca) sindensis Alcock, 1900

Naderloo, Reza & Türkay, Michael, 2012, Decapod crustaceans of the littoral and shallow sublittoral Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf: Faunistics, Biodiversity and Zoogeography 3374, Zootaxa 3374 (1), pp. 1-67 : 54

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scientific name

Uca (Paraleptuca) sindensis Alcock, 1900
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Persian Gulf. Iraq ( Naser et al. 2010), Kuwait ( Collins et al. 1984; Jones 1986a), Iran ( Mokhlesi et al. 2011; present study).

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Kolahi, Bandar-Tiab, Qeshm I. (12 stations around the island), Bandar-Abbas, Bandar-Pohl, Bandar-Khamir, Mahtabi, Bandar-Kong . Bushehr Province: Khalij-Nayband, Bandar-Banak, Bandar- Dayyer, Mond, Delvar, Ramleh, Bandar-Rig, Laylatayn, Bavirat, Emamzadeh Shah-Abdollah. Khuzestan Province: Mahshahr (Majidieh Fishery Jetty), Bandar-Emam, Arvandroud River (Arvandkenar, Yadman Shohaday-Valfajr) .

General distribution. Northwestern Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Pakistan.

Habitat. Muddy/sandy-mud intertidal, mangroves.

Remarks. Uca sindensis has been originally described by Alcock (1900) from Karachi ( Pakistan) as Gelasimus inversus var. sindensis . Crane (1975) assigned this species to her new subgenus Amphiuca Crane, 1975 . Beinlich & von Hagen (2006) included it with other Indo-West Pacific wide-front fiddler crabs in the genus Paraleptuca . They stated that this subgenus is heterogeneous, a statement which was supported by Naderloo et al. (2010). The taxonomic position of the species within the large genus Uca is not clear, and need detailed genetic and morphological work in order to establish the exact systematic position, which is being done in an ongoing study by Naderloo & Türkay (in preparation). Collins et al. (1984) redescribed this species providing detailed morphological and biological accounts of it from Kuwait. More biological aspects of U. sindensis can be found in Mokhlesi et al. (2011).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Ocypodidae

Genus

Uca

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