Afruca

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Afruca
male, Gambia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Ocypodidae
Genus: Afruca
Crane, 1975
Species:
A. tangeri
Binomial name
Afruca tangeri
(Eydoux, 1835)
Synonyms 
  • Uca tangeri
  • Gelasimus cimatodus Rochebrune, 1833
  • Gelasimus tangeri Eydoux, 1835
  • Gelasimus platydactylus H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
  • Gelasimus perlatus Herklots, 1851
  • Gonoplax speciosus Monod, 1933 [nomen nudum]

Afruca is a genus of fiddler crabs belonging to the family Ocypodidae. Afruca tangeri, the only species in this genus, lives along the Atlantic coasts of western Africa and southwestern Europe.

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