Gelasimus vocans explained

Gelasimus 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.^[1] It lives in burrows up to deep.^[1] Several forms of G. vocans have been recognised, with their authors often granting them the taxonomic rank of full species or subspecies.^[2]

Gelasimus vocans was formerly in the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Gelasimus, a former subgenus of Uca.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Uca vocans (Linnaeus, 1758) . David Gillikin . Anouk Verheyden . amp . 2002 . A field guide to Kenyan mangroves . February 3, 2011 . July 14, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110714015950/http://www.madeinnys.com/mangrove/u_vocans.htm . dead .
2. Raoul Serène . 1973 . The names of the forms of Uca vocans (Linnaeus) (Decapoda, Ocypodidae) . . 24 . 3 . 337–339 . 20101997 . 10.1163/156854073x00722.