Talk:Fiddler crab

Species of Uca
Are there more species of Uca? This page (German) lists: We are only listing 4?? Donama 05:17, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Uca annulipes under list:
 * Uca burgersi
 * Uca capricornis
 * Uca coarcata
 * Uca crassipes
 * Uca dampieri
 * Uca dussumieri
 * Uca ecuadoriensis
 * Uca elegans
 * Uca flammula
 * Uca forcipata
 * Uca lactea perplexa
 * Uca minax
 * Uca mjobergi
 * Uca paradussumieri
 * Uca pugilator
 * Uca pugnax
 * Uca signata
 * Uca speciosa
 * Uca tangeri
 * Uca tetragonon
 * Uca vocans
 * Uca vomeris

Catching Fish
Ought to note that one of the reasons fiddlers wave their claw is to catch small fish. So keeping them in an aquarium with fish does have that possibility. I've found my fiddler munching away on the last remnant of a very expensive fancy guppy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Friendly person (talk • contribs) 03:49, 22 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm fairly certain that catching fish is not a typical use by male fiddler crabs for their large claw. In the first place, their mouth parts are not designed to tear flesh or eat fish meat, so catching a fish would not be useful to them in that regard. In the second place, fiddler crabs are semi-terrestrial, and tend to live above the water not in it. There are no semi-terrestrial fish (even lungfish don't qualify as semi-terrestrial). The behavior you observed in your tank is probably highly atypical. Sviscido (talk) 12:38, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Fiddle-Shaped?
The characterization of the claw as "fiddle-shaped" in the lead must have been written by someone who's never seen a fiddle. The presumably correct story behind the name is given later; "The movement of the smaller claw from ground to mouth during feeding inspired the crabs' common name, etc, etc." I don't care enough to go through and re-word the lead and remove the redundancy that the article will then contain, but someone might want to. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.208.120.38 (talk) 00:58, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

needs edit in ecology
link back to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detritivore —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.100.29.171 (talk) 04:36, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

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