List of Atlantic decapod species
This is a list of decapod crustaceans found in the North and South Atlantic Oceans.
Dendrobranchiata[]
Caridea[]
- Alpheus heterochaelis
- Crangon crangon
- Crangon septemspinosa
- Heterocarpus ensifer
- Lysmata wurdemanni
- Macrobrachium carcinus
- Macrobrachium ohione
- Neopontonides beaufortensis
- Palaemon serratus
- Palaemonetes pugio
- Palaemonetes vulgaris
- Pandalus borealis
- Periclimenes pedersoni
- Periclimenes yucatanicus – spotted cleaner shrimp
- Thor manningi
- Xiphocaris elongata
Stenopodidea[]
Spiny lobsters and allies[]
- Arctides guineensis
- Jasus lalandii – Cape rock lobster
- Jasus tristani – Tristan rock lobster
- Palinurellus gundlachi
- Palinurus charlestoni
- Palinurus elephas – European spiny lobster
- Palinurus mauritanicus
- Panulirus argus
- Panulirus echinatus
- Panulirus guttatus
- Parribacus antarcticus
- Scyllarides aequinoctialis
- Scyllarides herklotsii
- Scyllarides latus
- Scyllarus arctus
- Scyllarus pygmaeus
Axiidea and Gebiidea[]
Pestarella tyrrhena
Lobsters[]
Norway lobster
European lobster
- Acanthacaris caeca
- Eunephrops bairdii
- Eunephrops cadenasi
- Eunephrops manningi
- Homarus americanus – American lobster
- Homarus gammarus – European lobster
- Metanephrops binghami – Caribbean lobster
- Nephropides caribaeus
- Nephrops norvegicus – Norway lobster
- Nephropsis atlantica
- Nephropsis rosea
- Thaumastocheles zaleucus
- Thymops birsteini
- Thymopsis nilenta
Hermit crabs and allies[]
- Clibanarius erythropus
- Clibanarius tricolor
- Clibanarius vittatus
- Diogenes pugilator – Small hermit crab
- Emerita talpoida – Atlantic sand crab
- Eumunida picta
- Galathea intermedia
- Galathea strigosa
- Lithodes maja – Norway king crab
- Pagurus acadianus
- Pagurus annulipes
- Pagurus bernhardus – European hermit crab
- Pagurus longicarpus – long-clawed hermit crab
- Pagurus pollicaris – flat-clawed hermit crab
- Pagurus prideaux
- Paralithodes platypus – blue king crab
- Paralomis africana
- Petrochirus diogenes
- Petrolisthes armatus
- Pisidia longicornis
- Polyonyx gibbesi
- Porcellana platycheles
- Porcellana sayana
Crabs[]
Cancer pagurus
Hyas araneus
Pinnotheres pisum
Thia scutellata
- Anasimus latus
- Arenaeus cribrarius
- Armases cinereum
- Atelecyclus rotundatus – circular crab
- Atelecyclus undecimdentatus
- Bathynectes longispina
- Bellia picta
- Callinectes bocourti
- Callinectes danae
- Callinectes exasperatus
- Callinectes larvatus
- Callinectes marginatus – sharptooth swimcrab
- Callinectes ornatus
- Callinectes sapidus – blue crab
- Callinectes similis
- Cancer bellianus
- Cancer borealis – Jonah crab
- Cancer irroratus – Atlantic rock crab
- Cancer pagurus – edible crab
- Carcinus maenas – European shore crab
- Cardisoma guanhumi – blue land crab
- Carpoporus papulosus
- Chaceon fenneri – golden crab
- Clythrocerus granulatus
- Clythrocerus nitidus
- Corystes cassivelaunus
- Dissodactylus mellitae
- Dromia personata
- Dyspanopeus sayi
- Dyspanopeus texanus
- Ebalia tumefacta
- Eriphia verrucosa
- Eurynome aspera
- Eurypanopeus depressus
- Gemmotheres chamae
- Geryon tridens
- Goneplax rhomboides
- Hemigrapsus penicillatus
- Hepatus epheliticus
- Hepatus pudibundus
- Homola barbata
- Hyas araneus – great spider crab
- Hyas coarctatus
- Inachus dorsettensis – scorpion spider crab
- Inachus phalangium
- Latreillia elegans
- Libinia dubia
- Libinia emarginata – portly spider crab
- Liocarcinus depurator
- Liocarcinus holsatus
- Liocarcinus marmoreus – marbled swimming crab
- Liocarcinus navigator
- Liocarcinus pusillus
- Liocarcinus vernalis – vernal crab
- Macropodia rostrata
- Macropodia tenuirostris
- Maja squinado – European spider crab
- Melybia thalamita
- Menippe adina – Gulf stone crab
- Menippe mercenaria – Florida stone crab
- Menippe nodifrons
- Mithraculus sculptus
- Mithrax spinosissimus
- Moreiradromia antillensis
- Necora puber – velvet crab
- – Florida grassflat crab
- Ocypode quadrata – Atlantic ghost crab
- Ovalipes ocellatus – lady crab
- Panopeus herbstii – Atlantic mud crab
- Panopeus occidentalis
- Paromola cuvieri
- Percnon gibbesi
- Persephona mediterranea
- Pilumnus hirtellus
- Pinnixa chaetopterana
- Pinnotheres pisum – pea crab
- Pirimela denticulata
- Pisa armata
- Planes minutus
- Polybius henslowii
- Portunus sayi
- Pyromaia cuspidata
- Rhithropanopeus harrisii – white-tipped mud crab
- Rochinia crassa
- Sesarma reticulatum – heavy marsh crab
- – Carolinian squareback crab
- Stenorhynchus seticornis
- Thia scutellata – thumbnail crab
- Tumidotheres maculatus
- Uca minax
- Uca pugilator
- Uca pugnax
- Uca tangeri
- Xantho hydrophilus
- Xantho poressa
- Zaops ostreus – oyster crab
References[]
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- Enrique Macpherson (1982). "A new species of Paralomis (Decapoda Anomura) from the Southeastern Atlantic". Crustaceana. 43 (2): 142–146. doi:10.1163/156854082X00461.
- Janet Haig (1956). "The Galatheidea (Crustacea Anomura) of the Allan Hancock Atlantic Expedition with a review of the Porcellanidae of the western North Atlantic" (PDF). Allan Hancock Atlantic Expedition Reports. 8: 1–44.
- Caetano da Costa, Rogério; Fransozo, Adilson; Schmidt Melo, Gustavo Augusto; de Morais Freire, Fúlvio Aurélio (2003). "An illustrated key for Dendrobranchiata shrimps from the northern coast of São Paulo State, Brazil". Biota Neotropica. 3 (1): 1–12.
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