Hong Kong Register of Marine Species - Uca (Tubuca) acuta (Stimpson, 1858)

HKRMS name details

Uca (Tubuca) acuta (Stimpson, 1858)

AphiaID

378395 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:378395)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Tubuca acuta (Stimpson, 1858)

Rank

Species

Parent

Uca (Tubuca) Bott, 1973 accepted as Tubuca Bott, 1973

Original name

Gelasimus acutus Stimpson, 1858

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Stimpson, W. (1858). Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Pars V. Crustacea Ocypodoidea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 10: 93-110 [39-56 in separate]. [details]

Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Uca (Tubuca) acuta (Stimpson, 1858). Accessed through: Astudillo, J. C.; Williams, G. A.; Leung, K. M. Y.; Cannicci, S.; Yasuhara, M.; Yau, C.; Qiu, J-W.; Ang, P. O.; To, A. W. L.; Shea, S. K. H. (Eds.) (2025) Hong Kong Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=378395 on 2026-05-15

Regional species database citation

Astudillo, J. C.; Williams, G. A.; Leung, K. M. Y.; Cannicci, S.; Yasuhara, M.; Yau, C.; Qiu, J-W.; Ang, P. O.; To, A. W. L.; Shea, S. K. H. (Eds.) (2026). Hong Kong Register of Marine Species. Uca (Tubuca) acuta (Stimpson, 1858). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=378395 on 2026-05-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-12-20 21:10:22Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-01-20 06:47:20Z

changed

Davie, Peter

2017-02-07 08:11:26Z

changed

Ng, Peter

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original description (of ) Stimpson, W. (1858). Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Pars V. Crustacea Ocypodoidea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 10: 93-110 [39-56 in separate]. [details]

context source (HKRMS) Jones DS. & Morton B. (1995). The fiddler crabs (Ocypodidae: Uca) of Hong Kong. In: Morton B, editor. Asian Marine Biology 11.Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. pp 9-40., available online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9789882200142-007 [details]

basis of record Ng, P.K.L.; Guinot, D.; Davie, P.J.F. (2008). Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of the extant Brachyuran crabs of the world. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1-286. [details] Available for editors

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 17 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (3 records)