Decapoda - Brachyura - Ucididae - Ucides

Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763)



World Distribution
Chace & Hobbs (1969, Smithsonian Institution) - Western Atlantic. Southern Florida to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles (St Thomas, Antigua I., Dominica).
(Sasaki, 2019) - WA - West Indies to Brazil, Argentina; British Guiana, Suriname type locality, French Guiana.

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

Vertical range : Intertidal - Min-Max observed: 0-0 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas), ICA (Antigua, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad). Terrestrial - Intertidal (mangrove). WA.
Uca lavis H. Milne Edwards, 1837(1834-1840): 22, Habite les Antilles. - Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 41, Guadeloupe [Pointe à Pitre, collection de M. Guérin] - Uca laevis H. Milne Edwards, 1837 accepted as Ucides occidentalis (Ortmann, 1897) an EP species; these records must be attributed to U. occidentalis analogous species in WA, U. cordatus.
Uca pilosipes Gill, 1859 (1858-1862): 43, St Thomas [coll. A.H. Riise] - Accepted as U. cordatus in WoRMS (2017).
Ucides cordatus - Rathbun, 1918: 348, St Thomas [synonymy with U. lavis H. Milne Edwards]. - Rathbun, 1921: 79, Antigua, Barbados [Barbados-Antigua Expedition 1918]. - Rathbun, 1933: 95, St Thomas. - Chace & Hobbs, 1969: 219, St Thomas, Antigua, Dominica. - Hagen, 1977: 41, Trinidad. - Powers, 1977: 150, Grenada [From unidentified reference]. - Carré, 2005: 23, Martinique. - Vaslet et al., 2013: 245, annex 3, Guadeloupe [from Bourgeois-Lebel 1982, not seen].
Ucides cordatus - Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, littoral and mangrove, st. GM16 (mangrove), lot JL719 (photograhs of remains of carapace and chelae, in part only, 1 pair of chelae, others parts, carapace and 1 pair of chelae are of Goniopsis cruentata), MNHN-IU-2013-6654.
Ucides cordatus - Martinique, groupe BIOSPHERES, November 2015, coll. R. Ferry & Y. Buske., det. J. Poupin; March 2016, photo in mangrove by R. Marraud des Grottes.
Guinot et al., 2013: 295 - Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763), male cw 58 mm, Martinique (MNHN-B29899)

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Cancer cordatus Linnaeus, 1763: 414, Suriname [Type locality]. Cancer cordatus Linnaeus, 1763 accepted as Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763).
Ocypode cordata – Latreille, 1803: 37, French Guiana, Suriname [Il se trouve à Cayenne, à Surinam].
Uca cordata (Linnaeus) – Young, 1900: 250, Guyana, Suriname.
Uca una Guérin – Young, 1900: 252, British Guiana [Color plate 7]. In Rathbun (1918: 347) this record is listed under U. cordatus (Linnaeus); it is distinct form Uca una Leach, 1814 which is accepted as Uca major (Herbst, 1782) in WoRMS (2023).

Ucides cordatus – Tavares, 2002d: 342, Suriname, French Guiana. — Amouroux & Tavares, 2005: 74, tab. 1, French Guiana. — Amaral et al., 2014: 213, Brazil Amapá. — Aschenbroich et al., 2016: 66, fig. 6, French Guiana [Sediment reworking activities in mangroves]. — Lima et al., 2019: 1466, Brazil Amapá [intense exploitation of the mangrove crab, Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763) in both Pará and Amapá]
Ocypode fossor Latreille, 1803: 38, French Guiana [Il se trouve à Cayenne]. Ocypode fossor Latreille, 1803 accepted as Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763) in WoRMS (2023).
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine (littoral, mangrove).

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