title: List of decapod crustaceans of Dominica
text: # 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
  