Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Brachyura > Section Eubrachyura > Subsection Thoracotremata > Superfamily Ocypodoidea > Family Ocypodidae > Subfamily Ocypodinae > Genus Afruca

Afruca tangeri (Eydoux, 1835)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Afruca*	Crane, 1975	accepted genus name
*Uca (Afruca)*	Crane, 1975	synonym

Species group names

*Gelasimus tangeri*	Eydoux, 1835	synonym
*Uca (Afruca) tangeri*	(Eydoux, 1835)	synonym
*Uca (Uca) tangeri*	(Eydoux, 1835)	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Shih, H.-T.; Ng, P. K. L.; Davie, P. J. F.; Schubart, C. D.; Türkay, M.; Naderloo, R.; Jones, D. S.; Liu, M.-Y. (2016). Systematics of the family Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Crustacea: Brachyura), based on phylogenetic relationships, with a reorganization of subfamily rankings and a review of the taxonomic status of Uca Leach, 1814, sensu lato and its subgenera. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 64: 139-175.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Afruca tangeri (Eydoux, 1835). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:955160