List of crustaceans of Puerto Rico
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This is a list of crustaceans of Puerto Rico.
- Atya innoccus (Innocous freshwater shrimp, gata chica, chágara)[1]
- Atya lanipes (Spinning freshwater shrimp, chágara giradora)[2]
- Atya scabra (Roughback freshwater shrimp, guábara, gata grande)[3]
- Macrobrachium carcinus (Bigclaw river shrimp, camarón de Años, viejo)[4]
- Macrobrachium crenulatum (Striped river shrimp, coyuntero del verde, rayao)[5]
- Macrobrachium faustinum (Bigarm river shrimp, coyuntero, pelú, popeye)[6]
- Macrobrachium heterochirus (Cascade river shrimp, camarón tigre, leopardo)[7]
- Emerita portoricensis (Puerto Rican sand crab, cangrejo topo)[8]
- Typhlatya monae
- Cardisoma guanhumi (blue land crab, juey común)[9]
- Gecarcinus lateralis (blackback land crab, red land crab, jueyita de tierra, mona)[10]
- Gecarcinus ruricola (purple land crab, black land crab, juey morao)[11]
- Arenaeus cribrarius (Speckled swimming crab, cocolía marina, pecosa)[12]
- Callinectes bocourti (Bocourt swimming crab, cocolía de Bocourt)[13]
- Callinectes exasperatus (Rugose swimming crab, cocolía arrugada)[14]
- Callinectes ornatus (Shelligs, cocolía adornada, jaiba)[15]
- Callinectes sapidus (Blue crab, cocolía azul)[16]
- Cardisoma guanhumi (Blue land crab, juey de tierra, juey azul, palanca)[17]
- Carpilius corallinus (Batwing coral crab, juey dormido)[18]
- Epilobocera sinuatifrons (Puerto Rican freshwater crab, buruquena, bruquena)[19]
- Gecarcinus lateralis (Blackback land crab, jueyita de tierra)[20]
- Gecarcinus ruricola (Purple land crab, juey morao, monita)[21]
- Goniopsis cruentata (Mangrove root crab, juey de mangle, cangrejo)[22]
- Mithrax spinosissimus (Channel clinging crab, cangrejo rey del Caribe)[23]
- Ocypode quadrata (White ghost crab, cangrejo fantasma, jueya blanca)[24]
- Ucides cordatus (swamp ghost crab, zambuco, cambú, juey pelú)[25]
