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Percnon
Percnon is a genus of crabs in the family Percnidae. It has also been included in the family Plagusiidae as subfamily Percninae.

Pisa
genus of crustaceans

Munida
Munida is the largest genus of squat lobsters in the family Munididae, with over 240 species.
Linuparus
Linuparus, the spear lobsters, is a genus of medium-sized to large spiny lobsters in the family Palinuridae. It contains four extant species found at depths of in the Indo-Pacific, and 32 fossil species, ranging from the Early Cretaceous to the Oligocene. L. trigonus is the only extant species also known from the fossil record.

Inachus
genus of crustaceans

Acetes
Acetes is a genus of small prawns that resemble krill, which is native to the western and central Indo-Pacific, the Atlantic coast of the Americas, Pacific coast of South America and inland waters of South America. Although most are from marine or estuarine habitats, the South American A. paraguayensis is a fresh water species. Several of its species are important for the production of shrimp paste in Southeast Asia, including Acetes. japonicus, which is the world's most heavily fished species of wild shrimp or prawn in terms of total tonnage and represent the majority of non-human animals kil

Potamonautes
Potamonautes is a genus of African freshwater crabs in the family Potamonautidae. It is both the most widespread and most diverse genus of African freshwater crabs, including more than half the species of this continent. They are found in most freshwater habitats of the African mainland and some species are semi-terrestrial.
Hemigrapsus
Hemigrapsus is a genus of varunid crabs comprising thirteen species native almost exclusively in the Pacific Ocean, but two have been introduced to the North Atlantic region.
Hippolyte
genus of crustaceans

Goneplax
Goneplax is a genus of crabs, containing the following extant species:
Goneplax barnardi (Capart, 1951)
Goneplax clevai Guinot & Castro, 2007
Goneplax rhomboides (Linnaeus, 1758)
Goneplax sigsbei (A. Milne-Edwards, 1880)
A further five species are also known from the fossil record, dating from the Miocene onwards.
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Romaleon
Romaleon is a genus of marine crabs formerly considered in the genus Cancer.

Hepatus
Hepatus is a genus of crabs in the family Aethridae, containing seven extant species, plus some fossil species:
Hepatus chiliensis H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
Hepatus epheliticus (Linnaeus, 1763)
Hepatus gronovii Holthuis, 1959
Hepatus kossmanni Neumann, 1878
Hepatus lineatus Rathbun, 1898
Hepatus pudibundus (Herbst, 1785)
Hepatus scaber Holthuis, 1959

Macrophthalmus
thumb|Macrophthalmus latreillei, a Pleistocene sentinel crab from northern Australia.
Macrophthalmus is a genus of crabs which are widespread across the Indo-Pacific. It contains the following species (arranged into subgenera): Species in this genus are often referred to as sentinel crabs.
Puerulus
genus of crustaceans

Plagusia
thumb|Plagusia dentipes painted by [[Kawahara Keiga in the period 1823 - 1829.]]

Chaceon
Chaceon is a crab genus in the family Geryonidae, and was first described in 1989 by Raymond Manning and Lipke Holthuis.
Oregonia
genus of crabs
Coleusia
Coleusia is a genus of Indo-Pacific pebble crabs of the family Leucosiidae. The six species currently recognised were formerly classed within the genus Leucosia. They were separated into Coleusia in 2006 based on the fusion of segments 3-5 on the abdomens of the males and the three times axial coiling of the shaft of the first pleopod, which bears a tufted lobe on its distal portion and an elongated apical process.
Metapenaeopsis
Metapenaeopsis, the velvet shrimps, is a prawn genus in the family Penaeidae. It contains the following species:
Betaeus
Betaeus is a genus of shrimp in the family Alpheidae, containing the following species:

Bathynectes
Bathynectes is a genus of crabs in the family Polybiidae.
Neopetrolisthes
Neopetrolisthes is a genus of porcelain crabs that live on sea anemones, and contains the following three species:
Neopetrolisthes maculatus (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837) – N. ohshimai Miyake, 1937 is a subjective synonym
Neopetrolisthes alobatus (Laurie, 1926)
Neopetrolisthes spinatus Osawa & Fujita, 2001

Leander
genus of crustaceans

Menippe
genus of crabs
Armases
Armases is a genus of true crabs in the family Sesarmidae. There are about 13 described species in Armases.
thumb|Armases roberti
Glyphea
Glyphea is a genus of fossil glypheoid crustaceans that lived from the Jurassic to the Eocene. It includes the following species:
Albunea
genus of crustaceans
Axius
genus of crustaceans
Macropodia
Macropodia is a genus of crabs, belonging to the family Inachidae. It contains the following species:

Achaeus
genus of crustaceans

Cardisoma
Cardisoma is a genus of large land crabs. Three species formerly placed in this genus are now placed in Discoplax. The four species that remain in Cardisoma are found in warm coastal regions where they live in burrows. Young individuals are often very colourful with a purple-blue carapace and orange-red legs (leading to a level of popularity in the pet trade), but as they grow older the colours tend to fade, and females may be duller than males. Although less extreme than in fiddler crabs, one claw is usually considerably larger than the other. They are omnivores, but primarily feed on plant m
Hobbseus
Hobbseus is a genus of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It comprises seven species, six of which are endemic to Mississippi; H. prominens is the only species to range outside Mississippi, being also found in Alabama. Three of the seven species are listed as endangered (EN) on the IUCN Red List, while three are of uncertain status (DD) and one is of least concern (LC).
Hobbseus attenuatus Black, 1969 – 24px|DD
Hobbseus cristatus (Hobbs, 1955) – 24px|DD
Hobbseus orconectoides Fitzpatrick & Payne, 1968 – 24px|EN
Hobbseus petilus Fitzpatrick, 1977 – 24px|DD
Hobbseus prominens (Hobbs, 1966) – 24p
Xenograpsus
Xenograpsus is a genus of crustaceans belonging to the monotypic family Xenograpsidae.
Solenocera
Solenocera is a genus of prawns in the family Solenoceridae. Solenocera occur from 0 to 2,067 meters deep in the ocean.
Banareia
Banareia is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:
Tozeuma
Tozeuma is a genus of caridean prawns in the cleaner shrimp family Hippolytidae. The genus has a global distribution in temperate and tropical marine and estuarine environments.

Liomera
Liomera is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae. It contains the following species:

Athanas
Athanas is a genus of shrimp of the family Alpheidae. These are small shrimp measuring 2 cm in length. Females have smaller chelae than males.

Rochinia
Rochinia is a genus of crab in the family Epialtidae, containing the following species:
Daldorfia
Daldorfia is a genus of parthenopid crab, belonging to the subfamily Daldorfiinae.
Eumunida
Eumunida is a genus of squat lobsters. The majority of its species are from the Pacific Ocean and are as follows:

Choniognathus
Choniognathus is a genus of crabs in the family Majidae of the order Decapoda. It is composed of several species of marine spider crabs.
Geograpsus
Geograpsus is a genus of crabs in the family Grapsidae, containing four extant species, and one extinct species:
Geograpsus crinipes (Dana, 1851)
Geograpsus grayi (H. Milne-Edwards, 1853)
Geograpsus lividus (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837)
Geograpsus stormi De Man, 1895
† Geograpsus severnsi Paulay & Starmer, 2011
Chlorodiella
Chlorodiella is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:
Acanthaxius
Acanthaxius is a genus of mud lobster native to the Indo-Pacific oceans. It has a slender rostrum which is longer than the eyestalks, is spinose and has seven spines and has a depth range of .
Agononida
Agononida is a genus of squat lobsters in the family Munididae. In 2022, recognizing that the genus as then defined was paraphyletic, it was divided into three lineages: Agononida sensu stricto and two new genera, Garymunida and Hexamunida. Agononida is distributed in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Cambaroides
thumb|Cambaroides dauricus
Paractaea
Paractaea is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:
Pilodius
Pilodius is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:
Salmoneus
genus of crustaceans
Xanthias
genus of crabs
Fallicambarus
Fallicambarus is a genus of crayfish in the family Cambaridae from the United States and Canada. It includes 12 species, of which one is on the IUCN Red List as a vulnerable species (VU) and one as an endangered species (EN). The species of this genus are all restricted to three states or fewer, from Texas and Oklahoma east to Florida.
Pleistacantha
Pleistacantha is a genus of crabs in the family Oregoniidae. The genus occurs throughout many coasts in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania.
Justitia
genus of crustaceans
Dyspanopeus
Dyspanopeus is a genus of crabs in the family Panopeidae, comprising two species:
Pachycheles
Pachycheles is a genus of porcelain crabs in the family Porcellanidae. There are more than 40 described species in Pachycheles.
Parhippolyte
Parhippolyte is a genus of cave dwelling decapod crustaceans, known as cave shrimps from the family Barbouriidae The type species Parhippolyte uveae was described in 1900 by the English carcinologist Lancelot Alexander Borradaile from specimens collected in the south western Pacific by Arthur Willey. As their vernacular name of cave shrimp suggests these species are generally found in marine caves as well as anchialine ponds and lagoons.
Aristaeomorpha
Aristaeomorpha is a genus of deep water prawns from the family Aristeidae.

Metabetaeus
Metabetaeus is a genus of shrimp in the family Alpheidae, comprising four species:
Metabetaeus lapillicola Yamashita, Komai & Kon, 2023
Metabetaeus lohena Banner & Banner, 1960
Metabetaeus mcphersonae Anker, 2010
Metabetaeus minutus (Whitelegge, 1897)
Palinurellus
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