A new record of the West African fiddler crab, Uca tangeri, from Gran Canaria (Canary Islands)

Abstract

A specimen of West African fiddler crab, Uca tangeri, was collected in October 2011 on the north-east coast of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands). This species is frequent along the shores of the east Atlantic from Portugal to Angola, but is very rare in the Canary Islands. There is only a previous record from 1971, but that did not report the place where it was found in the archipelago.