Cultivable Bacteria Associated with the Microbiota of Troglophile Bats [PDF]
Animals, 2022 Background: The study of bats is of significant interest from a systematic, zoogeographic, ecological, and physiological point of view. The aim of this study is to investigate the culturable aerobic enteric, conjunctival, and oral bacterial flora of bats
Maria Foti, Marco Colnaghi
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Shedding light on the embryogenesis and eye development of the troglophile cave spider Tegenaria pagana C. L. Koch, 1840 (Araneae: Agelenidae) [PDF]
EvoDevoBackground Relatively little is known about the diversity of embryonic development across lineages of spiders, even though the study of embryonic development is a primary step in evo-devo studies and essential for understanding phenotypic evolution ...
Ariel Chipman +2 more
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Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2022 We report two species of the family Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea), Hulodes caranea (Cramer, [1780]) from Mt. Deogyu and Hypena (Hypena) narratalis Walker, [1859] from Jangam cave, for the first time from Korea.
Jae-Ho Ko +2 more
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First record of Stenochrus portoricensis Chamberlin, 1922 (Arachnida: Schizomida: Hubbardiidae) for caves in Brazil: evidence for a troglophile status of an exotic species [PDF]
Check List, 2015 New records of Stenochrus portoricensis Chamberlin, 1922 are given, the first south-american record in caves and the first to Goiás state in the Cerrado phytogeographical domain.
Bichuette Me, Jonas Gallão
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Swimming behavior and hydrodynamics of the Chinese cavefish Sinocyclocheilus rhinocerous and a possible role of its head horn structure. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 The blind troglobite cavefish Sinocyclocheilus rhinocerous lives in oligotrophic, phreatic subterranean waters and possesses a unique cranial morphology including a pronounced supra-occipital horn.
Fakai Lei +5 more
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The millipede Typhloglomeris caucasica Golovatch, 1975 found epigeically (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridellidae) [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2013 The millipede Typhloglomeris caucasica Golovatch, hitherto considered as a troglobite confined to several caves near Sochi, western Caucasus, Russia, is recorded epigeically in the same region, and is therefore a troglophile.
Sergei Golovatch, Yuri Chumachenko
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Species conservation profile of the stenoendemic cave spider Pimoa delphinica (Araneae, Pimoidae) from the Varaita valley (NW-Italy) [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2017 Pimoa delphinica Mammola, Hormiga & Isaia, 2016 is a troglophile araneoid spider endemic of the high Varaita valley (Western Alps, Province of Cuneo, NW Italy).
Stefano Mammola +2 more
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Neelipleona and Symphypleona (Collembola) from a Sampling in the Mesovoid Shallow Substratum of the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park (Madrid and Segovia, Spain): Taxonomy and Biogeography [PDF]
Insects, 2021 Megalothorax minimus (Neelidae) and Sphaeridia pumilis (Sminthurididae) had already been identified in surface sampling from Sierra de Guadarrama. In Europe, Sminthurinus gisini (Katiannidae) seems to be associated with environments at specific altitudes,
Enrique Baquero +2 more
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Coming out in a harsh environment: a new genus and species for a land flatworm (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) occurring in a ferruginous cave from the Brazilian savanna [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Faunal inventories in ferruginous caves from an area belonging to the Brazilian savanna (Cerrado phytophysiognomy), on the eastern margin of the Serra do Espinhaço Plateau, in southeastern Brazil, have revealed the occurrence of land flatworms. Herein, a
Ana M. Leal-Zanchet +1 more
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A contribution to the knowledge of cavernicolous ground beetles from Sichuan Province, southwestern China (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechini, Platynini) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2020 Two new genera and four new species of cave-adapted ground beetles are described from Sichuan Province, southwestern China. Uenoaphaenops gen. nov. is established to place the trechine species Qianotrechus fani Uéno, 2003 occurring in the limestone cave ...
Mingyi Tian, Li He
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