Of the 106 species of the fiddler crab, a few of the most common are the fresh-water fiddler, spined fiddler, and panacea sand fiddler. The fresh-water fiddler, also known as the red jointed fiddler's range extends from Massachusetts to the central part of eastern Florida. It also extends from the western central coast of Florida to Louisiana. The spined-fiddler crab lives along the Gulf of Mexico, from Tabasco Mexico, into the United States, as far east as Alabama. The Panacea sand fiddler lives along the Gulf of Mexico, from Panacea, in the Florida panhandle, to the Tabasco-Campeche border in Mexico.