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); three 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 Lithodidae

:*Lithodes manningi

;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

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