Jocelyn Crane

Jocelyn Crane
Born(1909-06-11)June 11, 1909
DiedDecember 16, 1998(1998-12-16) (aged 89)
Other namesJocelyn Crane Griffin
EducationSmith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
OccupationCarcinologist
EmployerNew York Zoological Society
Known forResearch on fiddler crabs
Spouse
(m. 1965)

Jocelyn Crane (June 11, 1909 – December 16, 1998), aka Jocelyn Crane Griffin, was an American carcinologist, most famous for her research on the fiddler crab and her work with the New York Zoological Society's (now the Wildlife Conservation Society) Department of Tropical Research.

She became a key figure and expert in ethology – concentrating on the behavior of tropical animals, jumping spiders, praying mantises, butterflies, and most importantly, fiddler crabs. Her lifelong research on fiddler crabs—researching their morphology, systematics, biogeography and behavior—was published in her 1975 seminal work Fiddler Crabs of the World.