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Taxonomic Details for Leptuca pugilator
| Systematic Resumé: |
| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Subkingdom | Bilateria |
| Infrakingdom | Protostomia |
| Superphylum | Ecdysozoa |
| Phylum | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum | Crustacea |
| Class | Malacostraca |
| Subclass | Eumalacostraca |
| Superorder | Eucarida |
| Order | Decapoda |
| Suborder | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder | Brachyura |
| Superfamily | Ocypodoidea |
| Family | Ocypodidae |
| Genus | Leptuca |
| Species | Leptuca pugilator |
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| Common Name: |
Atlantic sand fiddler |
| Synonym(s): |
Uca pugilator |
| Authority: |
(Bosc, 1802) |
| ITIS TSN: |
99087 (click on the taxonomic serial number to view the ITIS web page) |
| Habitats: |
Salinity Zone: Marine |
| GCE Contact: |
Steven C. Pennings, University of Houston, Houston, Texas |
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| GCE Data Sets: |
INV-GCEM-2509 (Fall 2024 crab population monitoring: mid-marsh and creek bank abundance based on crab hole counts at GCE marsh, monitoring sites 1-10)
INV-GCEM-2409 (Fall 2023 crab population monitoring: mid-marsh and creek bank abundance based on crab hole counts at GCE marsh, monitoring sites 1-10)
MSH-GCED-2308 (Pred-Ex: Long Term Salt Marsh Predator Exclusion Experiment Conducted at Sapelo Island, GA)
INV-GCEM-2309 (Fall 2022 crab population monitoring: mid-marsh and creek bank abundance based on crab hole counts at GCE marsh, monitoring sites 1-10)
INV-GCEM-2209 (Fall 2021 crab population monitoring: mid-marsh and creek bank abundance based on crab hole counts at GCE marsh, monitoring sites 1-10)
(view all 31 relevant data sets in the GCE Data Catalog) |

Uca pugilator in its typical habitat of sandy soils. Photo: Steve Pennings
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