Decapoda - Brachyura - Ocypodidae - Gelasimus

Gelasimus hesperiae (Crane, 1975)



World Distribution
ROSENBERG M. S. 2018. – Fiddler Crabs: Uca hesperiae at http://www.fiddlercrab.info/u_hesperiae.html. Consulted 2018
East Africa to Thailand.

Environnement : Marine & Land - Substrat/Association : Soft bottom (mud or sand)

Vertical range : Land & Freshwater - Min-Max observed: 0-1 m

Mayotte data
Gelasimus hesperiae (Crane, 1975)
Material examined — See Bouchard et al., 2013: 43 fig. 37 as Uca (Gelasimus) hesperiae Crane, 1975 - Mayotte KUW 2009, st. J. -M. Bouchard P11 (sample 12) 1 M 12.2 x 19.2 mm, MNHN B32105, MNHN-IU-2009-1024; st. 2, Kangani mangrove, 1 M 11.0 x 16.8 mm, 1 F 12.5 x 18.3 mm, MNHN B32106, MNHN-IU-2009-1025, 1 M 11.0 x 17.3 mm, (photo and field label with 10.6 x 17.2 mm) MNHN B32107, MNHN-IU-2009-1026
Other records — Uca marioni marioni (Desmaret, 1823) - Guinot, 1967: 281, list with Mayotte / Accepted as Gelasimus vocans (Linnaeus, 1758) in WoRMS (2018) but 'U. vocans' from the Indian Ocean is Gelasimus hesperiae (Crane, 1975) cf. Rosenberg (2013, 2014, 2018), Shih et al. (2010). - Uca (Gelasimus) vocans - Bouchard, 2009: 6, 24, Mayotte, Malamani mangrove, specimens added to Mayotte KUW collection.
Geographic and depth ranges (see Rosenberg, 2018) — IO, Gulf of Aden, Somalia, South Africa to India, Thailand.

Comment(s) on data
New genus Gelasimus is from Shih et al. (2016, Raffles Bulletin). Species reported. Gelasimus hesperiae often reported from WIO as U. vocans.

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