Figure 25. Minuca vocator

Alt Text: Composite photograph of the Minuca vocator fiddler crab which includes several black & white images of different views of the crab, a color photograph, and a distribution map. Composite Image Description: Figure 25. Minuca vocator (Herbst, 1804). UNI 698. Collected: April 2011, Mexico, Veracruz, Laguna Tamiahua-intracoastal Canal (20.96569, -97.31073 to 22.10059, -97.77755). Scale Bar = 10mm. (A) Dorsal view. (B) Front view. (C) Inner cheliped. (D) Ocular view. (E) Ambulatory. (F) Color Photo. (G) Distribution Map (Finke 2024). Species Description: Moderate-sized species (< 25 mm). Carapace moderately convex with conspicuous patches and lines of pile (Fig. 25A). Carapace length 70% width; frontal region about 36% carapace width. Antero-lateral margins curving inward; anterolateral angle blunt. Postero-lateral margins strongly inward. Large cheliped appears elongated in comparison to width (Fig. 25B). Dactyl and pollex longer than manus, blade-like. Gap large, terminus of dactyl overhangs pollex. Tubercles on dactyl gap mostly small; a single large tubercle on proximal third. Pollex with two tubercles located distally (Fig. 25B,C). Tip of pollex trifurcated. Oblique ridge on inner manus poorly developed, apex at carpal cavity forming “knob-like” structure (Fig. 25C). On walking legs, merus is broad (Fig. 25E); width 40% length. Pubescence and long setae present on upper surface of propodus and carpus (Fig. 25A). Pantropical species collected between Nueces Co, Texas, USA and Santos in Sao Paulo, Brazil (Fig. 25G).