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AMCS Bulletin 5

Studies on the Cavernicole Fauna of Mexico and Adjacent Regions

Edited by Robert W. Mitchell and James R. Reddell
201 pages
1973
(PDF reprint 2005)


This collection of papers adds more than one hundred species to the known cave fauna of Mexico, including 61 newly described species, of which 30 are troglobites. There is also some material on Texas, Belize, and Guatemala.
Available as a 57 MB facsimile PDF file on a CD along with Bulletins 3, 4, and 6.


Table of Contents

Preface

1

Two New Species of the Subterranean Amphipod Genus Mexiweckelia (Gammaridae) from México and Texas, with Notes on the Origin and Distribution of the Genus, by J. R. Holsinger

13

Two New American Species of Spelaeomysis (Crustacae: Mysidacea) from a Mexican Cave and Land Crab Burrows, by T. E. Bowman

21

On More Earthworms from Mexican Caves, by G. E. Gates

25

Three New Troglobitic Decapod Crustaceans from Oaxaca, México, by H. H. Hobbs, Jr.

39

The Genus Sphaeromicola (Ostracoda, Entocytheridae) in México, by H. H. Hobbs, Jr., and H. H. Hobbs III

43

Jarmilka alba, n.gen., n.sp. (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Cambalidae), a New Milliped from a Cave in Belize, by W. A. Shear

47

New and Little Known Pseudoscorpions, Mainly from Caves in México, (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpionida), by W. B. Muchmore

63

The Pseudoscorpion Genus Mexobisium in Middle America (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpionida), by W. B. Muchmore

73

Two New Troglobitic Shrimps (Decapoda: Alpheidae and Palaemonidae) from Oaxaca, México, by H. H. Hobbs, Jr.

81

A Second Troglobitic Tyrannochthonius from México (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpionida, Chthoniidae), by W. B. Muchmore

83

Opilionids (Phalangida) from Mexican Caves, by C. J. Goodnight and M. L. Goodnight

97

A Review of the Cavernicolous Catopinae (Coleoptera; Leiodidae) of México, Belize, and Guatemala, by S. B. Peck

107

Millipedes in the Collection of the Association for Mexican Cave Studies. II. Keys and Additional Records and Descriptions (Diplopoda), by N. B. Causey

123

Two New Troglobitic Amblypygida of the Genus Tarantula from Mexican Caves (Arachnida), by J. M. Rowland

129

The Genus Pseudosinella in Mesoamerican Caves, by K. Christiansen

135

Three New Schizomida of the Genus Schizomus from Mexican Caves (Arachnida), by J. M. Rowland

141

A Report on Cave Spiders from México and Central America, by W. J. Gertsch

165

A New Cave-Adapted Planarian (Tricladida, Paludicola, Planariidae) from Chiapas, México, by R. W. Mitchell and K Kawakatsu

171

A Checklist of the Cave Fauna of México. IV. Additional Records from the Sierra de El Abra, Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosí, by J. R. Reddell and W. R. Elliott

181

A Checklist of the Cave Fauna of México. V. Additional Records from the Sierra de Guatemala, Tamaulipas, by J. R. Reddell and W. R. Elliott

191

A Checklist of the Cave Fauna of México. VI. Valle de los Fantasmas Region, San Luis Potosí, by W. R. Elliott and J. R. Reddell

 


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