Lazare Botosaneanu, Thomas M Iliffe, and Dean A Hendrickson (1998)
On a collection of stygobitic cirolanids (Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from northern Mexico, with description of a new species.
Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique - Bulletin van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, 68:123-134.
From caves and springs in northern Mexico (Tamaulipas and
Coahuila), mostly explored by diving, seven species of stygobitic
and troglomorphic cirolanids were sampled: four species
of Speocirolana BOLIVAR (one of them, interesting in several
respects, described as new), the two known species of
Sphaerolana COLE & MINCKLEY, and Cirolanides texensis
BENEDICT. For all six already known species, the localities are
new, and additional information is provided on their morphology,
variability, and relationships. With 15 described species, Mexico
has a quite remarkable and varied assemblage of subterranean
Cirolanidae, pointing to quite diverse marine ancestors.
lsopoda, stygobitic/troglomorphic fauna, northern, Mexico, taxonomy
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