Tubuca

Tubuca is a genus in Ocypodidae, a family of fiddler and ghost crabs. There are more than 20 described species in Tubuca.

Tubuca
Tubuca bellator
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Ocypodidae
Subfamily:	Gelasiminae
Tribe:	Gelasimini
Genus:	Tubuca Bott, 1973

Species

These 23 species belong to the genus Tubuca:

• Tubuca acuta (Stimpson, 1858)
• Tubuca alcocki Shih, Chan & Ng, 2018
• Tubuca arcuata (De Haan, 1835)
• Tubuca australiae (Crane, 1975)
• Tubuca bellator (White, 1847)
• Tubuca capricornis (Crane, 1975)
• Tubuca coarctata (H.Milne Edwards, 1852)
• Tubuca demani (Ortmann, 1897)
• Tubuca dussumieri (H.Milne Edwards, 1852)
• Tubuca elegans (George & Jones, 1982)
• Tubuca flammula (Crane, 1975)
• Tubuca forcipata (Adams & White, 1849)
• Tubuca hirsutimanus (George & Jones, 1982)
• Tubuca longidigitum (Kingsley, 1880)
• Tubuca paradussumieri (Bott, 1973)
• Tubuca polita (Crane, 1975)
• Tubuca rhizophorae (Tweedie, 1950)
• Tubuca rhizophoriae
• Tubuca rosea (Tweedie, 1937)
• Tubuca seismella (Crane, 1975)
• Tubuca signata (Hess, 1865)
• Tubuca typhoni (Crane, 1975)
• Tubuca urvillei (H.Milne Edwards, 1852)

Further reading

• Nizinski, Martha S. (2003). "Annotated checklist of decapod crustaceans of Atlantic coastal and continental shelf waters of the United States" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 116 (1): 96–157. ISSN 0006-324X.