Uca
See also: Appendix:Variations of "uca"
Translingual
editEtymology
editThe genus name is from the indigenous Old Tupi word for the crabs along the Brazilian coast, from usá.
Proper noun
editUca f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Ocypodidae – the fiddler crabs.
Hypernyms
edit- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Crustacea – subphylum; Malacostraca – class; Eumalacostraca – subclass; Eucarida – superorder; Decapoda – order; Pleocyemata – suborder; Brachyura – infraorder; Eubrachyura – section; Thoracotremata – subsection; Ocypodoidea – superfamily; Ocypodidae – family; Ocypodinae - subfamily
References
edit- Oliveira, Lejeune (1939): Contribuição ao conhecimento dos crustaceos do Rio de Janeiro: Genero Uca (Decapoda: Ocypodidae)