Uca vocans

Uca vocans is a species of fiddler crab. It is found across the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea, Zanzibar and Madagascar to Indonesia and the central Pacific Ocean.[2] It lives in burrows up to 50 centimetres (20 in) deep.[2] Several forms of U. vocans have been recognised, with their authors often granting them the taxonomic rank of full species or subspecies.[3]

Uca vocans
male, Bako National Park, Malaysia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Ocypodidae
Genus:	Uca
Subgenus:	Gelasimus
Species:	U. vocans
Binomial name
Uca vocans (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms [1]
Cancer vocans Linnaeus, 1758 Gelasimus marionis Desmarest, 1823 Ocypode citharoedicus Say, 1817 Gelasimus nitidus Dana, 1851 Gelasimus cultrimanus White, 1847 Uca marionis forma excisa Nobili, 1906

References

1. Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
2. David Gillikin & Anouk Verheyden (2002). "Uca vocans (Linnaeus, 1758)". A field guide to Kenyan mangroves. Retrieved February 3, 2011.
3. Raoul Serène (1973). "The names of the forms of Uca vocans (Linnaeus) (Decapoda, Ocypodidae)". Crustaceana. 24 (3): 337–339. doi:10.1163/156854073x00722. JSTOR 20101997.