Genus Gabunillo Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1983

Type species: Gabunillo coecus Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1983

Diagnosis. Animals able to conglobate, faintly brown pigmented or depigmented; cephalon with frontal margin interrupted medially; pereonite 1 with a tiny groove along its margin; both outer and inner lobes of the schisma rounded; pereonites 2 and 3 each with transverse ridge ventrally; epimeral plates overlapping; back without granulations, ribs or tubercles, armed with scale-setae; pleopodal exopods without respiratory structures; uropodal protopod rectangular with exopodite subterminally or dorsally attached; pleotelson triangular (or T-shaped).

Composition of the genus. The genus Gabunillo contains two species: Gabunillo aridicola sp. nov. and G. c o e c u s Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1983. Species known to occur in caves or near cave entrances.