San Salvador

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San Salvador

Description: San Salvador is 20 km long by about 10 km wide. The island is relatively high with a maximum elevation of 46 m. Much of the interior of the island is made up of lakes.

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San Salvador Island. (24.0 N, 74.5 W) Lakes appear as lighter colored areas on the island.
Date Taken: 9 March 1994
NASA Photo ID: STS062-83-113

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Principle Inland Blue Holes

Lighthouse Cave
Major's Cave

Anchialine Fauna of San Salvador

Phylum Porifera (sponges)

Pellina pencilliformis Van Soest & Sass, 1981

Prosuberites geracei Van Soest & Sass, 1981

Cinachyra subterranea Van Soest & Sass, 1981

Phylum Arthropoda (arthropods)

Subphylum Crustacea (crustaceans)

Subclass Copepoda (copepods)

Enantiosis cavernicola Barr, 1984

Speleoithona salvadorensis Rocha & Iliffe, 1991

Echinolaophonte horrida Fiers, 1986

Paralaophonte echinate Fiers, 1986

Subclass Ostracoda (ostracods)

Spelaeoecia barri Kornicker & Barr, 1997

Order Decapoda (decapods)

Infraorder Caridea (shrimp)

Barbouria cubensis (Von Martens, 1872)

Order Isopoda (isopods, pill bugs)

Bahalana geracei Carpenter, 1981

Neostenetroides stocki Carpenter & Magniez, 1982

Class Remipedia (remipedes)

Speleonectes epilimnius Yager & Carpenter, 1999

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