{{Short description|Species of crab}} {{Speciesbox | image = Fiddler Crab Gulf Coast.jpg | genus = Minuca | species = longisignalis | authority = (Salmon & Atsaides, 1968) | display_parents = 3 }}
'''''Minuca longisignalis''''', the '''longwave gulf fiddler''', is a species of American broad-front fiddler crab in the family Ocypodidae.<ref name=gbif/><ref name=bugguide/><ref name=Rosenberg2019/>
''Minuca longisignalis'' was formerly in the genus ''Uca'', but in 2016 it was placed in the genus ''Minuca'', a former subgenus of ''Uca''.<ref name=Shih2016/><ref name=Rosenberg2019/><ref name=worms/>
==Predation== This crab is prey to frogs, toads, gulls, herons, mangrove rails, willets, Atlantic blue crabs, mud crabs, Gulf killifishes, red drums, spotted bass, jellyfish, raccoons, marsh rice rats, diamondback terrapins, snakes, and skinks.<ref>Uca longisignalis (Gulf marsh fiddler). Animal Diversity Web. https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Uca_longisignalis/</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=gbif> {{Cite web| title=''Minuca longisignalis'' | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/9279534 | website=GBIF | access-date=2020-11-16 }}</ref>
<ref name=bugguide> {{Cite web| title=''Minuca longisignalis'' species Information | url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/467444 | website=BugGuide.net | access-date=2020-11-16 }}</ref>
<ref name=Shih2016> {{Cite journal | title = Systematics of the family Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Crustacea: Brachyura), based on phylogenetic relationships, with a reorganization of subfamily rankings and a review of the taxonomic status of Uca Leach, 1814, sensu lato and its subgenera | date = 2016 | last1 = Shih | first1 = Hsi-Te | last2 = Ng | first2 = Peter K. L. | last3 = Davie | first3 = Peter J. F. | last4 = Schubart | first4 = Christoph D. | last5 = Türkay | first5 = Michael | last6 = Naderloo | first6 = Reza | last7 = Jones | first7 = Diana | last8 = Liu | first8 = Min-Yun | display-authors = 4 | journal = The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology | volume = 64 | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305766283 }}</ref>
<ref name=Rosenberg2019> {{Cite journal | title = A fresh look at the biodiversity lexicon for fiddler crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae). Part 1: Taxonomy | date = 2019 | last1 = Rosenberg | first1 = Michael S. | journal = Journal of Crustacean Biology | volume = 39| issue = 6 | url = https://academic.oup.com/jcb/article/39/6/729/5614985 }}</ref>
<ref name=worms> {{Cite web| title= WoRMS taxon details, ''Austruca mjoebergi'' (Rathbun, 1924) | url = http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=955186 | website = World Register of Marine Species | access-date=2020-11-16 }}</ref> }}
==Further reading== {{Refbegin}} * {{Cite journal | title = Annotated checklist of decapod crustaceans of Atlantic coastal and continental shelf waters of the United States | date = 2003 | last1 = Nizinski | first1 = Martha S. | journal = Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington | volume = 116| issue = 1| pages = 96–157 | issn = 0006-324X | url = https://research.nhm.org/pdfs/12091/12091.pdf }} {{Refend}}
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