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title: "Mexican Fiddler Crab"
description: "Leptuca crenulata — Weitere Tiere. Leptuca crenulata, commonly known as the Mexican fiddler crab, is a species of American broad-front fiddler crab in the family Ocypodidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/mexican-fiddler-crab
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Mexican Fiddler Crab

> Leptuca crenulata — Weitere Tiere. Leptuca crenulata, commonly known as the Mexican fiddler crab, is a species of American broad-front fiddler crab in the family Ocypodidae.

- Scientific name: *Leptuca crenulata*
- Category: `other` (Weitere Tiere)
- Habitats: `sea` (Meer & Küste)
- iNaturalist observations: 1951
- Wikidata: [Q107086589](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107086589)
- iNaturalist taxon: [555971](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/555971)

## Names

- en: Mexican Fiddler Crab
- es: Cangrejo violinista del Pacífico

## Countries with the most observations

US (1483), MX (202)

## Summary

Leptuca crenulata, commonly known as the Mexican fiddler crab, is a species of American broad-front fiddler crab in the family Ocypodidae.
Leptuca crenulata was formerly placed in the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was transferred to the genus Leptuca, a former subgenus of Uca.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptuca_crenulata

## Photo

![Mexican Fiddler Crab](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/mexican-fiddler-crab/medium.jpg)

Photo: ant, like the bug · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/300050430

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/mexican-fiddler-crab?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).