Austruca is a genus of Indo-west Pacific fiddler crabs in the family Ocypodidae. There are about 13 described species in this genus.
Austruca was formerly a subgenus of Uca, but in 2016 it was elevated in rank to genus.
Species
These 13 species belong to the genus Austruca:
- Austruca albimana <small>(Kossmann, 1877)</small> (white-handed fiddler crab)
- Austruca annulipes <small>(H.Milne Edwards, 1837)</small> (ring-legged fiddler crab)
- Austruca bengali (bengal fiddler crab)
- Austruca citrus (citrus fiddler crab)
- Austruca cryptica <small>(Naderloo, Türkay & Chen, 2010)</small> (cryptic fiddler crab)
- Austruca iranica <small>(Pretzmann, 1971)</small> (Iranian fiddler crab)
- Austruca lactea <small>(De Haan, 1835)</small> (milky fiddler crab)
- Austruca mjoebergi <small>(Rathbun, 1924)</small> (banana fiddler crab)
- Austruca occidentalis <small>(Naderloo, Schubart & Shih, 2016)</small> (East African fiddler crab)
- Austruca perplexa <small>(H.Milne Edwards, 1852)</small> (perplexing fiddler crab)
- Austruca sindensis <small>(Alcock, 1900)</small> (indus fiddler crab)
- Austruca triangularis <small>(A.Milne-Edwards, 1873)</small> (triangular fiddler crab)
- Austruca variegata <small>(Heller, 1862)</small> (motley fiddler crab)
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