where's jimmy hendrix when ya need him?
Apr. 23rd, 2012 10:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twoelevenpurple crab!
if these were vertebrates, i wouldn't hesitate to call them microfauna, since they're between 2cm and 4cm wide -- that's, um... ¾" to 1½" wide or so -- but that's plenty big when compared to an ant or gnat.
described in: Hendrik Freitag; Revision of the genus Insulamon Ng & Takeda, 1992 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Potamidae) with description of four new species; Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60, 1, 37-55. (PDF)
if these were vertebrates, i wouldn't hesitate to call them microfauna, since they're between 2cm and 4cm wide -- that's, um... ¾" to 1½" wide or so -- but that's plenty big when compared to an ant or gnat.
described in: Hendrik Freitag; Revision of the genus Insulamon Ng & Takeda, 1992 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Potamidae) with description of four new species; Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60, 1, 37-55. (PDF)