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).
Cardisoma guanhumi, Woodford Hill, Dominica
Guinotia dentata, Emerald Pool, Dominica
Atlantic ghost crab (Ocypode quadrata), Calibishie, Dominica
Infraorder Anomura (hermit crabs and porcelain crabs)
- Family Coenobitidae
- Caribbean hermit crab Coenobita cypleatus
- Family Porcellanidae
- Petrolisthes quadratus
Infraorder Brachyura (true crabs)
- Family Gecarcinidae
- Family Grapsidae
- Geograpsus lividus
- Goniopsis cruentata
- Grapsus grapsus
- Family Ocypodidae
- Ocypode quadrata
- Uca burgersi
- Uca vocator
- Ucides cordatus
- Family Plagusiidae
- Plagusia depressa
- Family Portunidae
- Family Pseudothelphusidae
- Family Sesarmidae
- Sesarma miersii
- Sesarma robertii
- Family Varunidae
- Cyclograpsus integer
Infraorder Caridea (shrimp)
Macrobrachium carcinus specimen from Dominica
- 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
References
- Peter G. H. Evans & James Arlington (1997). Dominica, Nature Island of the Caribbean: Wildlife Checklists. Dominica Ministry of Tourism. pp. 6–9.
- Fenner A. Chace, Jr. & Horton H. Hobbs (1969). "The freshwater and terrestrial decapod crustaceans of the West Indies with special reference to Dominica". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 292: 1–258. doi:10.5479/si.03629236.292.1.
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