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purple 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)