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title: "Atlantic Sand Fiddler Crab"
description: "Leptuca pugilator — Outros animais. Leptuca pugilator, the sand fiddler crab, Atlantic sand fiddler crab, or Calico fiddler, is a species of fiddler crab that is found from Massachusetts to the Gulf of Mexico."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/atlantic-sand-fiddler-crab
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Atlantic Sand Fiddler Crab

> Leptuca pugilator — Outros animais. Leptuca pugilator, the sand fiddler crab, Atlantic sand fiddler crab, or Calico fiddler, is a species of fiddler crab that is found from Massachusetts to the Gulf of Mexico.

- Scientific name: *Leptuca pugilator*
- Category: `other` (Outros animais)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 9091
- Wikidata: [Q107086608](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107086608)
- iNaturalist taxon: [555968](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/555968)

## Names

- en: Atlantic Sand Fiddler Crab

## Countries with the most observations

US (7000)

## Summary

Leptuca pugilator, the sand fiddler crab, Atlantic sand fiddler crab, or Calico fiddler, is a species of fiddler crab that is found from Massachusetts to the Gulf of Mexico. It lives in burrows in coastal and estuarine mud-flats, and can be extremely abundant. It can be differentiated from the morphologically similar Minuca pugnax and Minuca minax by the smoothness of the inside of its claws. One claw is larger than the other, and can be much larger than the crab's body, at up to 41 mm (1.6 in) long.
Leptuca pugilator was formerly in the genus Uca, but in 2016 it became a member of the genus Leptuca, a former subgenus…

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

## Photo

![Atlantic Sand Fiddler Crab](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/atlantic-sand-fiddler-crab/medium.jpg)

Photo: Matt Schultz · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/171933073

## Machine access

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