The Microcerberidae are a

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isopod Isopoda is an order of crustaceans that includes woodlice and their relatives. Isopods live in the sea, in fresh water, or on land. All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons, two pairs of antennae, seven pairs of jointed limbs on the thorax, an ...

crustacean Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean gro ...

s. They are less than long, and live interstitially in shallow marine or freshwater sand habitats. Marine microcerberids comprise the main part species diversity, but are very alike. As a group, they have very broad distribution: *the majority of '' Coxicerberus'': Americas, southern coasts of Europe, Africa, warm waters of Asia, New Zealand *''"Microcerberus" monodi'': Angola Freshwater taxa are less abundant in species number (only 12 species), but are more morphologically diverse and include seven or eight genera. They have these distributions: *'' Afrocerberus'' and '' Protocerberus'': central and southern Africa *'' Bulgarocerberus'': Bulgaria *'' Isoyvesia'': Cuba *'' Mexicerberus'': Mexico *'' Microcerberus'': South Carolina, Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia *''"Microcerberus" remyi'': Morocco *'' Coxicerberus ruffoi'': northern Italy

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Isopoda Taxa named by Stanko Karaman Crustacean families Taxa described in 1933 {{isopod-stub