Decapod Crustacean Genera
35 entries in the Decapod Crustacean Genera compendium.
BirgusThe only species in its genus, the largest terrestrial arthropod.Kiwa (crustacean)Deep-sea decapods that farm symbiotic bacteria on their bristly claws.SeychellumMonotypic freshwater crab genus endemic to the Seychelles.DecaphyllusA genus of small Indo-Pacific hermit crabs related to Catapaguroides.AeglaThe only extant genus of freshwater pancora crustaceans in South America.Emerita (crustacean)Small burrowing crustaceans that filter feed in the swash zone.ThalassinaMud lobsters that recycle nutrients in mangrove ecosystems.UpogebiaA genus of mud shrimp known as underground diggers.HomarinusMonotypic genus of small, rare South African lobster.SelatiumMangrove crabs with striped carapaces and tree-climbing habits.SesarmopsA genus of Indo-West-Pacific mangrove and forest stream crabs.LaurentaeglypheaA rare glypheoid lobster known from a single specimen.AcetesSmall prawn genus vital to shrimp paste and global fishery.NanhaipotamonFreshwater crabs of coastal southern China and Taiwan.MacrophthalmusA genus of Indo-Pacific crabs known as sentinel crabs.MarsupenaeusMonotypic genus of large, economically important prawn.Cancer (genus)A genus of marine crabs including the European edible crab.LeptograpsusMonotypic grapsid genus with a single purple rock crab species.GordonopsisDeep-sea carrier crabs of the Indo-West Pacific.LeiogalatheaA circum-tropical deep-sea squat lobster genus.PalinustusA genus of deep-water spiny lobsters with truncated supraorbital horns.ErimacrusA commercially important crab of the Northwest Pacific.TunicotheresA monotypic pea crab genus living commensally in ascidians.EnoplometopusBrightly colored reef lobsters popular in the aquarium trade.DinochelusA deep-sea lobster with fearsome, unequal claws.ScyllaridesA genus of slipper lobsters in the subfamily Arctidinae.HemigrapsusA genus of varunid crabs with Pacific origins and Atlantic invasions.PlacetronMonotypic king crab genus with scale-like leg pattern.LinuparusSpear lobsters with a rich fossil record from the Cretaceous.SagmariasusMonotypic spiny lobster genus, among the world's longest decapods.SolenoceraA genus of prawns found from shallow to deep waters.JasusA genus of Southern Hemisphere spiny lobsters with distinctive horns.OedignathusMonotypic king crab genus with tuberculate chelipeds and legs.ThenusA genus of slipper lobsters including the Moreton Bay bug.PylojacquesiaA monotypic hermit crab genus living in serpulid worm tubes.
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