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Because of the great importance of the obtained results of the Joint Expedition Havana-Harvard in 1938-1939, on board of the R/V Atlantis, as well as the difficult access to the original literature, it was decided to publish present list on the 371 species and 5 subspecies of mollusk, crustaceans, and echinoderms of this expedition. The scientific names, authors and date of publications of each species of which 19 species and 3 subspecies of mollusk, 24 species and ones subspecies of crustaceans and 31 species and one subspecies of echinoderms, considered then new species for Science, are also pointed out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two species of isopod crustaceans were recorded for the first time, as part of the parasite fauna of marine fishes from Cuba. There were collected from Chaetodon sedentarius (Poey, 1860) and Myripristis jacobus (Cuvier, 1829) in the North Coast of Cuban Archipelago. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]