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Pseudarmadillo spinosus   The Isopods are a group not very studied in Cuba, although in the last years, a number of new genera and species have been described to science. Recently, it was published the complete review of the family Delatorreidae , an interesting group of terrestrial isopod.       ENTER	Augusto Juarrero de Varona Cuban Zoology Society [email protected] Send Page To a Friend	Clibanarius sp.     Infraorder Anomura includes the unique terrestrial hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus)       ENTER	LINKS
Atya lanipes   Cuba exhibits the richest fauna of the fresh and brackish waters shrimps of the West Indies, with 32 species (50% of endemism) included in five families and 13 genera. If the Subterranean Species are taken only in consideration, except United States and Mexico, our archipelago register the biggest number of species of the whole American Continent (14 species with 75 % of endemism)     ENTER	Neoischyrocerus sp.     Amphipods represents the best studied group of   Peracarids. In the last 20 years Dr. Ortiz has  described numerous genera and more than 30 new species to science. The immense majority are marine and very few of freshwater           ENTER	Goniopsis cruentata     More than 300 species of crabs are recorded in our archipelago, including the terrestrial and semi-terrestrial ones. The new analysis  of genus Epilobocera with description of a new Subgenus, new species and some subspecies to science is avalaible now     DATABASE

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