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AMCS Bulletin 5Studies on the Cavernicole Fauna of Mexico and Adjacent Regions
Edited by Robert W. Mitchell and James R. Reddell |
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AMCS Bulletin 5Studies on the Cavernicole Fauna of Mexico and Adjacent Regions
Edited by Robert W. Mitchell and James R. Reddell |
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