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The Água Clara Cave System was previously recognized as a prominent hotspot of subterranean biodiversity in South America, harboring 31 cave-restricted species.
Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira +1 more
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A Hotspot of Arid Zone Subterranean Biodiversity: The Robe Valley in Western Australia
Knowledge of subterranean fauna has mostly been derived from caves and streambeds, which are relatively easily accessed. In contrast, subterranean fauna inhabiting regional groundwater aquifers or the vadose zone (between surface soil layers and the ...
Huon L. Clark +2 more
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An overview of stygobiontic invertebrates of Poland based on published data [PDF]
Based on published literature, at least eighty species of stygobiontic invertebrates are confirmed in Poland. The highest number of these species is found in interstitial waters and wells, while a lower number was discovered in caves and springs. Hydrachnidia is represented by 45 species living mainly in interstitial waters, Crustacea by 24, Annelida ...
Dumnicka,Elzbieta, Galas,Joanna
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Monolistra are stygobiont isopods spread in numerous karst areas from the south-eastern parts of Dinaric karst to south-eastern Switzerland. They inhabit different typologies of groundwater habitats from lentic to lotic ones where they can be ...
R. Manenti +7 more
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Mammoth Cave: A Hotspot of Subterranean Biodiversity in the United States
The Mammoth Cave System in the Interior Low Plateau karst region in central Kentucky, USA is a global hotspot of cave-limited biodiversity, particularly terrestrial species.
Matthew L. Niemiller +2 more
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The Crystal-Wonder Cave System developed in the Western Escarpment of the southern Cumberland Plateau in the Interior Low Plateau karst region of south-central Tennessee, USA is a global hotspot of cave-limited biodiversity.
Matthew L. Niemiller +10 more
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Two species of leeches were described from Georgia in the past, Dina ratschaensis Kobakhidze, 1958 from the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti region and Trocheta ariescornuta Grosser, Barjadze & Maghradze, 2021 from the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region ...
Clemens Grosser +5 more
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Two new stygobiotic species of Horatia Bourguignat, 1887 (Hydrobiidae) from Croatia [PDF]
In this paper we describe two new species of the freshwater snails of genus Horatia. A new stygobiotic species of Horatia Bourguignat, 1887 is described from Izvor Beguša in Croatia. It occurs in sympatry with the crenobiotic H.
Andrzej Falniowski +4 more
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Corrigenda: First record of subterranean freshwater gastropods (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Cochliopidae) from the cenotes of Yucatán state. Subterranean Biology 29: 79–88. https://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.29.32779 [PDF]
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Jozef Grego +2 more
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Substygophily in Dinaric Karst: A Model Case of Locally Endemic Minnows Phoxinellus (Leuciscinae). [PDF]
Phoxinellus minnows have adapted to the highly variable water conditions of karst poljes, ranging from floods to draughts within shorter (seasonal, annual) and longer (decadal) periods. In this study, based on the analysis of their morphological characters and their presence (or absence) in caves, they were classified more precisely, with P. dalmaticus
Palandačić A +7 more
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