A Review of the Cavernicole Fauna of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize By James R. Reddell Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 27 1981 8.5 by 11 inches, 327 pages hardbound

Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, the three countries covered by this study, contain one of the most diverse cavernicole faunas of any region in the world. This remarkable diversity may be explained in large part by the existence of extensive cave systems in a wide variety of habitats: deserts, high montane forests, and lowland tropical forests. A total of almost 2,000 species, including 279 troglobites, and known from caves in these three countries. [from the introduction]

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction
5 History
19 Cave regions
59 Distribution
69 Systematic review
257 Literature cited
289 List of collecting locations
319 List of troglobites by state
323 Supplement