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A new record of the West African fiddler crab, Uca tangeri, from Gran Canaria (Canary Islands)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2012

José J. Castro
José J. Castro*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Edificio Ciencias Básicas, Campus de Tafira, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: J.J. Castro, Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Edficio Ciencias Básicas, Campus de Tafira, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain email: jcastro@pesca.gi.ulpgc.es
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Abstract

A specimen of West African fiddler crab, Uca tangeri, was collected in October 2011 on the north-east coast of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands). This species is frequent along the shores of the east Atlantic from Portugal to Angola, but is very rare in the Canary Islands. There is only a previous record from 1971, but that did not report the place where it was found in the archipelago.

Keywords

Uca tangerifiddler crabCanary Islandsnew recordcentral east Atlantic
Type
Research Article
Information
Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 5 , August 2012 , e19
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2012

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