Providenciales

Description: Providenciales. Providenciales, more commonly known as "Provo", is a large, high island that covers an area of 98 square kilometers. It is the most developed island in Turks and Caicos and has a population of over 6,000 including many Haitians, Dominicans, French, Canadians, Germans and Americans.

Providenciales. The Caicos Bank includes the islands of Providenciales, North, Middle, East, West and South Caicos, plus a number of smaller islands and cays. Providenciales and West Caicos border the western margin of the bank (22N, 72W).
Date Taken: 9/17/94
NASA Photo ID: STS064-117-066

Subphylum Crustacea (crustaceans)

Subclass Ostracoda (ostracods)

Deeveya spiralis Kornicker & Iliffe, 1985

Order Nebaliacea (nebalianceans)

Family Nebaliidae

Speonebalia cannoni Bowman, Yager, & Iliffe, 1985

Subclass Copepoda (copepods)

Erebonectes macrochaetus Fosshagen, 1994

Order Decapoda (decapods)

Infraoder Caridea (shrimp)

Typhlatya garciai Chace, 1972

Barbouria cubensis (von Martens, 1872)

Order Amphipoda (amphipods)

Bahadzia stocki Holsinger, 1985

Order Mysidacea (mysids, opossum shrimp)

Stygiomysis clarkei Bowman, Iliffe, & Yager, 1984

Class Remipedia (remipedes)

Lasionectes entrichoma Yager & Schram, 1986