- English Common Name
- Compressed Fiddler Crab
- Scientific name
- Tubuca coarctata
- Taxonomy
- Order: Decapoda, Family: Ocypodidae
- Size
- About 2.5 cm (width of carapace)
- Species Distribution
- Widely distributed from Amamioshima Island to Western Pacific.
- Okinawa Red List of Threatened Species:Near Threatened
- Japan Red List of Threatened Species:Near Threatened
- This species inhabits rivers, tidal flats in river mouths, and mangrove areas comprised of sand mixed with a little mud. This species shares a similar appearance with closely related Tubuca dussumieri, but Tubuca coarctata has thicker and shorter eyestalks.
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- Updated January 2019
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