Uca annulipes
Fixed finger of large chela with subtruncate tip well marked or at least indicated. On inner surface of palm two obliquely subvertical granular rows near articulation of fingers. Outer surface of palm with a groove running parallel and close to inferior margin. Colour of palm white to pink.
Vernacular name: Porcelain fiddler.
Order Decapoda Latreille, 1802
Infraorder Brachyura Latreille, 1802
Section Eubrachyura de Saint Laurent, 1980
Subsection Heterotremata Guinot, 1977
Superfamily Ocypodoidea Rafinesque, 1815
Family Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815
Subfamily Ocypodinae Rafinesque, 1815
Uca annulipes (H. Milne Edwards, 1837)
East coast of Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, China (Hainan Is) and Japan.
Mangroves, mud flats, esturine, burrows in mud.