List of decapod crustaceans of Dominica
# List of decapod crustaceans of Dominica

Thirty-two species of decapod crustaceans have been recorded in Dominica, an island nation in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles. This includes eighteen species of true crabs (infraorder Brachyura); one species of hermit crab; one species of porcelain crab (infraorder Anomura); and eleven species of freshwater shrimp (infraorder Caridea).

## Infraorder Anomura (hermit crabs and porcelain crabs)

   ### Family Coenobitidae
      * Caribbean hermit crab Coenobita cypleatus

   ### Family Porcellanidae
      * Petrolisthes quadratus

## Infraorder Brachyura (true crabs)

   ### Family Gecarcinidae
      * Cardisoma guanhumi

      * Gecarcinus lateralis

      * Gecarcinus ruricola

   ### Family Grapsidae
      * Geograpsus lividus

      * Goniopsis cruentata

      * Grapsus grapsus

   ### Family Ocypodidae
      * Ocypode quadrata

      * Uca burgersi

      * Uca vocator

      * Ucides cordatus

   ### Family Plagusiidae
      * Plagusia depressa

   ### Family Portunidae
      * Callinectes bocourti

      * Callinectes marginatus

      * Callinectes sapidus

   ### Family Pseudothelphusidae
      * Guinotia dentata

   ### Family Sesarmidae
      * Sesarma miersii

      * Sesarma robertii

   ### Family Varunidae
      * Cyclograpsus integer

## Infraorder Caridea (shrimp)

   ### Family Atyidae
      * Atya innocous

      * Atya scabra

      * Jonga serrei

      * Micratya poeyi

      * Potimirim glabra

      * Xiphocaris elongata

   ### Family Palaemonidae
      * Macrobrachium acanthurus

      * Macrobrachium carcinus

      * Macrobrachium crenulatum

      * Macrobrachium faustinum

      * Macrobrachium heterochirus
