Extensive Admixture Among Karst‐Obligate Salamanders Reveals Evidence of Recent Divergence and Gene Exchange Through Aquifers [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionKarst ecosystems often contain extraordinary biodiversity, but the complex underground aquifers of karst regions present challenges for assessing and conserving stygobiont diversity and investigating their evolutionary history.
Chris C. Nice +7 more
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Back from the underworld: the exploitation of spring habitats by stygobiont species
HydrobiologiaStygobionts, namely animals with strong adaptations to subterranean environments that are unable to complete their life cycles outside groundwater, can be observed in spring ecotones, but their occurrence is generally considered accidental.
Veronica Zampieri +2 more
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Groundwater invertebrates and droughts: resistance in stygobiont isopods and planarians
ARPHA Conference Abstracts, 2022 In surface freshwater habitats water level can be strongly variable and benthic invertebrates are usually adapted to cope with hydrological variability. Groundwater habitats are usually more stable, even if in sites at the interface with the vadose zone,
Stefano Lapadula +3 more
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Caridina zhaoi sp. nov., a new stygobiont atyid shrimp (Decapoda, Caridea, Atyidae) from a limestone cave in Guizhou Province, China [PDF]
Zoosystematics and EvolutionA new stygobiont species of freshwater shrimp, Caridina zhaoi sp. nov., from a karst cave in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, southwestern China, is described and illustrated. The new species is morphologically distinct from its epigean congeners by a suite of
Xuankong Jiang +2 more
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New distribution records of subterranean crustaceans from cenotes in Yucatan (Mexico) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2020 New records of 14 stygobiont crustacean species pertaining to six Malacostraca orders from 32 cenotes are presented, with their associated caves of the state of Yucatan, Mexico, together with an individual account for each species. Species composition of
Dorottya Angyal +5 more
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DNA taxonomy reveals high species diversity among the stygobiont genus Metastenasellus (Crustacea, Isopoda) in African groundwater [PDF]
Subterranean BiologyThis study aimed to explore the species diversity within the isopod genus Metastenasellus in Benin and Cameroon. Compared to other parts of the world, the described diversity of stygobiotic crustaceans in Africa is low due to a dearth of studies and ...
Moïssou Lagnika +4 more
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Tiny guardian of the spring: Description of the first Islamiinae (Mollusca, Hydrobiidae) from the Caucasus [PDF]
ZooKeysGveleshapia kvevri gen. et sp. nov. represents the first formally described species of Islamiinae from the Caucasus, extending the distribution of this subfamily far beyond its traditionally outlined Mediterranean range.
Elizaveta M. Chertoprud +2 more
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Bermuda’s Walsingham Caves: A Global Hotspot for Anchialine Stygobionts [PDF]
Diversity, 2021 Bermuda is an Eocene age volcanic island in the western North Atlantic, entirely capped by Pleistocene eolian limestone. The oldest and most highly karstified limestone is a 2 km2 outcrop of the Walsingham Formation containing most of the island’s 150 ...
Thomas M. Iliffe +1 more
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Mayaweckelia troglomorpha, a new subterranean amphipod species from Yucatán state, México (Amphipoda, Hadziidae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2018 A detailed description of a new stygobiont species of the amphipod family Hadziidae, Mayaweckelia troglomorpha Angyal, sp. n. is given, based on material collected in four cenotes of Yucatán federal state, México.
Dorottya Angyal +4 more
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New stygobiont genus and new species (Gastropoda, Hydrobiidae) from the Rif (Morocco)
Ecologica Montenegrina, 2020 Stygobiont valvatoid hydrobiids living in the groundwater were collected from a survey in the wells in the Rif region, in northern Morocco. The description of the shells, the male and the female genitalia revealed a character combination for a new genus,
M. Ghamizi
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