Marine Crabs of Texas

 


Speckled swimming crab
Arenaeus cribrarius
Family Portunidae

 
Squareback marsh crab
Armases cinereum
Family Sesarmidae

 
Yellow box crab
Calappa sulcata
Family Calappidae

 
Blue crab
Callinectes sapidus
Family Portunidae

 


Lesser blue crab
Callinectes similis
Family Portunidae

 
Blue land crab
Cardisoma guanhumi
Family Gecarcinidae

 
Roughwrist soft crab
Chasmocarcinus mississippiensis
Family Goneplacidae

 
Thinstripe hermit
Clibanarius vittatus
Family Diogenidae

 


Gulf grassflat crab
Dyspanopeus texanus
Family Panopeidae

 
Puerto Rican sand crab
Emerita portoricensis
Family Hippidae

 
Olivepit porcelain crab
Euceramus praelongus
Family Porcellanidae

 
Flatback mud crab
Eurypanopeus depressus
Family Panopeidae

 


Calico box crab
Hepatus epheliticus
Family Hepatidae

 
Flecked box crab
Hepatus pudibundus
Family Hepatidae

 
Smooth mud crab
Hexapanopeus angustifrons
Family Panopeidae

 
Surf hermit
Isocheles wurdemanni
Family Diogenidae

 


Mole crab
Lepidopa benedicti
Family Albuneidae

 
Laguna Madre fiddler crab
Leptuca subcylindrica
Family Ocypodidae

 
Longnose spider crab
Libinia dubia
Family Pisidae

 
Portly spider crab
Libinia emarginata
Family Pisidae

 


Stone crab
Menippe adina
Family Menippidae

 
False arrow crab
Metoporhaphis calcarata
Family Inachidae

 
Atlantic ghost crab
Ocypode quadrata
Family Ocypodidae

 
Florida lady crab
Ovalipes floridanus
Family Portunidae

 


Blue-spot hermit
Paguristes hummi
Family Diogenidae

 
Brown banded hermit
Pagurus annulipes
Family Paguridae

 
Dimpled hermit
Pagurus impressus
Family Paguridae

 
Longwrist hermit
Pagurus longicarpus
Family Paguridae

 


Flatclaw hermit
Pagurus pollicaris
Family Paguridae

 
Salt marsh mud crab
Panopeus obesus
Family Panopeidae

 
Oystershell mud crab
Panopeus simpsoni
Family Panopeidae

 
Pink purse crab
Persephona crinita
Family Leucosiidae

 


Mottled purse crab
Persephona mediterranea
Family Leucosiidae

 
Giant hermit
Petrochirus diogenes
Family Diogenidae

 
Green porcelain crab
Petrolisthes armatus
Family Porcellanidae

 
Tube pea crab
Pinnixa chaetopterana
Family Pinnotheridae

 


Eastern tube crab
Polyonyx gibbesi
Family Porcellanidae

 
Spotted porcelain crab
Porcellana sayana
Family Porcellanidae

 
Iridescent swimming crab
Portunus gibbesii
Family Portunidae

 
Sargassum swimming crab
Portunus sayi
Family Portunidae

 


Blotched swimming crab
Portunus spinimanus
Family Portunidae

 
Estuarine mud crab
Rithropanopeus harrisii
Family Panopeidae

 
Gulf squareback crab
Speocarcinus lobatus
Family Goneplacidae

 
Red-jointed fiddler crab
Uca minax
Family Ocypodidae

 


Mudflat fiddler crab
Uca rapax
Family Ocypodidae

 
Spined fiddler crab
Uca spinicarpa
Family Ocypodidae