Crustacean List By Common Name Common names of species described and pictured in this web site are listed below. To go directly to a particular animal in this list click on its name. If you prefer to look at the image gallery of a group click on a heading.

Crabs

• American spider crab
• European shore crab
• Hairy crab
• Oval spider crab
• Pebble crab
• Red rock crab
• Rough shore crab
• Sand crab
• Seaweed crab
• Sentinel crab
• Soldier crab
• Spiky stone crab
• Sponge crab
• Toothed shore crab
• Triangle crab

False Crabs

• Australian porcelain crab
• Commensal porcelain crab
• Hairy stone crab
• Striated squat lobster

Hermit crabs

• Boxer hermit crab
• Clarrie's hermit crab
• Common hermit crab
• Miner hermit crab
• Scaly hermit crab
• Striated hermit crab
• Stridulating hermit crab
• Tiny right-handed hermit crab

Ghost Shrimps

• Bass yabby
• Ceramic ghost shrimp
• Mud ghost shrimp
• Sand ghost shrimp
• Slow sponge shrimp
• Sponge shrimp

Shrimps

• Fat-handed shrimp
• Green snapping shrimp
• Hairy snapping shrimp
• Hinge-beaked shrimp
• Little shrimp
• Red-handed shrimp
• Sailor shrimp
• Social snapping shrimp
• Southern hooded shrimp
• Striped shrimp
• Sydney comb shrimp
• Weed shrimp

Isopods

• Beach slater
• Fierce sea mite
• Marine pill bug
• Patterned anthurid
• Sand skater
• Scale louse
• Sea centipede
• Seagrass gribble
• Sea louse
• Skeleton louse
• Southern chaetiliid
• Stenetrium

Amphipods

Barnacles

Cumaceans

Lobsters

• Balmain Bug
• Southern Rock Lobster

Mantis shrimp

Opposum shrimps

Ostracods

Sea Flea

Feedback and queries should be sent to the Discovery Centre at Museum Victoria.
Please note, the Discovery Centre can help you only with questions about crustaceans from southeastern Australia. It can not advise on the care of pet hermit crabs or on crustaceans from other regions.