List of crustaceans of Puerto Rico facts for kids

This is a list of crustaceans of Puerto Rico.

List

• Atya innoccus (Innocous freshwater shrimp, gata chica, chágara)
• Atya lanipes (Spinning freshwater shrimp, chágara giradora)
• Atya scabra (Roughback freshwater shrimp, guábara, gata grande)
• Macrobrachium carcinus (Bigclaw river shrimp, camarón de Años, viejo)
• Macrobrachium crenulatum (Striped river shrimp, coyuntero del verde, rayao)
• Macrobrachium faustinum (Bigarm river shrimp, coyuntero, pelú, popeye)
• Macrobrachium heterochirus (Cascade river shrimp, camarón tigre, leopardo)
• Emerita portoricensis (Puerto Rican sand crab, cangrejo topo)
• Typhlatya monae
• Cardisoma guanhumi (blue land crab, juey común)
• Gecarcinus lateralis (blackback land crab, red land crab, jueyita de tierra, mona)
• Gecarcinus ruricola (purple land crab, black land crab, juey morao)
• Arenaeus cribarius (Speckled swimming crab, cocolía marina, pecosa)
• Callinectes bocourti (Bocourt swimming crab, cocolía de Bocourt)
• Callinectes exasperatus (Rugose swimming crab, cocolía arrugada)
• Callinectes ornatos (Shelligs, cocolía adornada, jaiba)
• Callinectes sapidus (Blue crac, cocolía azul)
• Cardisoma guanhumi (Blue land crab, juey de tierra, juey azul, palanca)
• Carpilius corallinus (Batwing coral crab, juey dormido)
• Epilobocera sinuatifrons (Puerto Rican freshwater crab, buruquena, bruquena)
• Gecarcinus laterales (Blackback land crab, jueyita de tierra)
• Gecarcinus ruricola (Purple land crab, juey morao, monita)
• Goniopsis cruentata (Mangrove root crab, juey de mangle, cangrejo)
• Mithrax spinosissimus (Channel clinging crab, cangrejo rey del Caribe)
• Ocypode quadrata (White ghost crab, cangrejo fantasma, jueya blanca)
• Ucides cordatus (swamp ghost crab, zambuco, cambú, juey pelú)