Mangrove ecosystems are sites with high biodiversity of benthic fauna, and fiddler crabs (genus Uca) are common benthic fauna in mangroves. The North Sulawesi in Indonesia has a good condition of mangrove while the information of the fiddler crabs is

The fiddler crab Uca annulipes (Milne Edwards, 1837) is thought to be widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific. Previous studies showed consistent morphological differences between East African populations and those from the eastern Indian Ocean

Fadilah RN, Yulia IT, Alfitra ZS, Armadhan WS, Widyaningtyas R, Rahmayani D, Permatasari DP, Igustita, Kusuma D, Prambudi SA, Berlin GE, Triyanto A, Sutarno, Indrawan M, Dadiono MS, Rahim KABA, Setyawan AD. 2023. Population density and distribution patterns

The Indo-West Pacific broad-front fiddler crabs, formerly attributed to the "lactea species-group" are revised. The subgenus Uca (Austruca) Bott, 1973, is here revived for accommodating the informal "lactea species-group". Uca (Austruca) presently covers