Uca lactea mjoebergi

Taxobox
name = "Uca lactea mjoebergi"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
infraordo = Brachyura
familia = Ocypodidae
genus = "Uca"
species = "U. lactea"
subspecies = "U. l. mjoebergi"
trinomial = "Uca lactea mjoebergi"
trinomial_authority = Rathbun, 1924

"Uca lactea mjoebergi" or "U. mjoebergi" is a species of fiddler crab discovered by and named after the Swedish zoologist Eric Mjöberg (1882–1938), member of a Swedish scientific expedition to Australia in the early 1900s.

The crab is found along the north and northwest coast of Australia (approximately from Dampier to the Gulf of Carpentaria and on Papua New Guinea's northwest coast) [cite web |url=http://www.fiddlercrab.info/u_mjoebergi.html |title="Uca mjoebergi" |date=2007-05-17 |publisher=fiddlercrab.info] .

According to Crane, the species "U. mjoebergi" should be classified as a subspecies of "Uca lactea", which in turn is a member of the subgenus "Celuca" [cite book |author=J. Crane |year=1975 |title=Fiddler Crabs of the World (Ocypodidae: Genus "Uca") |publisher=Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey |id=ISBN 0-691-08102-6] .

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