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