Austruca is a genus of Indo-west Pacific fiddler crabs in the family Ocypodidae. There are about 13 described species in this genus.
Austruca was formerly a subgenus of Uca, but in 2016 it was elevated in rank to genus.
Species These 13 species belong to the genus Austruca:
Austruca albimana (Kossmann, 1877) (white-handed fiddler crab) Austruca annulipes (H.Milne Edwards, 1837) (ring-legged fiddler crab) Austruca bengali (bengal fiddler crab) Austruca citrus (citrus fiddler crab) Austruca cryptica (Naderloo, Türkay & Chen, 2010) (cryptic fiddler crab) Austruca iranica (Pretzmann, 1971) (Iranian fiddler crab) Austruca lactea (De Haan, 1835) (milky fiddler crab) Austruca mjoebergi (Rathbun, 1924) (banana fiddler crab) Austruca occidentalis (Naderloo, Schubart & Shih, 2016) (East African fiddler crab) Austruca perplexa (H.Milne Edwards, 1852) (perplexing fiddler crab) Austruca sindensis (Alcock, 1900) (indus fiddler crab) Austruca triangularis (A.Milne-Edwards, 1873) (triangular fiddler crab) Austruca variegata (Heller, 1862) (motley fiddler crab)
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