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Etude Comparée Du Comportement Alimentaire De Deux Poissons Cavernicoles (Anoptichthys Jordani Hubbs Et Innes Et Caecobarbus Geertsi Blgr.), Georges Thinès, Nicole Wissocq Jan 1972

Etude Comparée Du Comportement Alimentaire De Deux Poissons Cavernicoles (Anoptichthys Jordani Hubbs Et Innes Et Caecobarbus Geertsi Blgr.), Georges Thinès, Nicole Wissocq

International Journal of Speleology

Systematic experiments on the cave-fishes Anoptichthys jordani and Caecobarbus geertsi show that the vertical orientation of swimming behaviour can be significantly modified by feeding the fishes during a period of 8 days before the experiments, either with food dropping to the bottom (Tubifex) or with food floating on the surface of the water (dried Daphnia). The observations have been quantified by recording systematically the position of the fishes in height in an aquarium divided in 3 levels of observation. The position of the fishes was recorded every 10 seconds during a total period of 15 minutes, divided in 3 periods …


Observations Sur Un Aselle Obscuricole De France: Proasellus Racovitzai N.Sp. (Crustacea Isopoda Asellota), Jean-Paul Henry, Guy Magniez Jan 1972

Observations Sur Un Aselle Obscuricole De France: Proasellus Racovitzai N.Sp. (Crustacea Isopoda Asellota), Jean-Paul Henry, Guy Magniez

International Journal of Speleology

This paper reports the description of a new species of the genus Proasellus Dudich. Proasellus racovitzai n.sp. is widely depigmented. The eyes are reduced. It lives in the underground stream of the Goueil-di-Her cave system (Haute-Garonne, France). The species is an old, endemic form of the phyletic line of the modern epigean species P. meridianus (Racovitza). Chromosome number of the new species: 2n = 22.


The Evolution Of The Eastern North American Isopods Of The Genus Asellus (Crustacea: Asellidae). Part I, Laurence E. Fleming Jan 1972

The Evolution Of The Eastern North American Isopods Of The Genus Asellus (Crustacea: Asellidae). Part I, Laurence E. Fleming

International Journal of Speleology

This paper is the first in a three part series concerned with the evolution of North American isopods of the genus Asellus. It contains the descriptions of four new species of isopods and a list of pertinent new range data of presently known species.


A New Genus Of Bulgarian Cave Spiders (Protoleptoneta Bulgarica N.G., N. Sp., Leptonetidae), Christo Deltshev Jan 1972

A New Genus Of Bulgarian Cave Spiders (Protoleptoneta Bulgarica N.G., N. Sp., Leptonetidae), Christo Deltshev

International Journal of Speleology

A new genus Protoleptoneta (P. bulgarica n. g., n. sp.) is described, which was collected in caves of the Western Balkan mountains - Bulgaria. The new genus unites features of the genera Leptoneta and Paraleptoneta but there are many differences, which divide it from these genera. It differs from Leptoneta as follows: the tarsus of male palp does not possess the characteristic apophysa of Leptoneta; the tarsus is less depressed and does not branch out; the teeth of chelicerae are equable and equidistant. It differs from Paraleptoneta as follows: the femora of male palp is spineless; near the …


Les Surfaces Cuticulaires Des Gnathopodes De Deux Crustacés Amphipodes: Niphargus (Gammaridé Hypogé) Et Gammarus (Gammaridé Épigé), Evelyne Sellem Jan 1972

Les Surfaces Cuticulaires Des Gnathopodes De Deux Crustacés Amphipodes: Niphargus (Gammaridé Hypogé) Et Gammarus (Gammaridé Épigé), Evelyne Sellem

International Journal of Speleology

Niphargus virei and N. schellenbergi (hypogean Gammarids) as also Gammarus pulex pulex (epigean Gammarid) show on the Gn1 and Gn2 of both sexes ornamented areas which were studied with a scanning electron microscope. The ornamentations are built up of teeth. These are simple in Gammarus pulex pulex and present a sexual dimorphism on the meropodite. In N. schellenbergi and N. virei they are as often as not grouped by three. In Orchestia (Talitrid) the teeth have their bases fusioned which forms pectinate scales showing a sexual dimorphism. Outside these areas, the gnathopod cuticle of N. virei, N. schellenbergi and …


Biospeologica Sovietica.Xlix. Le Premier Représentant Anophtalme Des Trechini (Coléoptères Carabiques) De La Ciscaucasie, S. I. Ljovuschkin Jan 1972

Biospeologica Sovietica.Xlix. Le Premier Représentant Anophtalme Des Trechini (Coléoptères Carabiques) De La Ciscaucasie, S. I. Ljovuschkin

International Journal of Speleology

During a recent exploration of caves in western Ciscaucasia there was collected, among others, a new species representing a new genus of Trechini (Coleoptera, Caraboidea), the description of which is given here; it has been named Birsteiniotrechus ciscaucasiens n.gen., n.sp., in memory of Prof. J.A. Birstein, famous Soviet biospeleologist, the founder and promotor of the “Biospeologica sovietica” series who passed away recently (cf. I.J.S., 4, part.2). The interest of Birsteiniotrechus lies in the fact that, until now no troglobite or endemic species of Trechini was known from the Ciscaucasian mountains; this genus belongs to the phyletic series of Neotrechus and …


Temperature And Relative Humidity Responses Of Two Texas Cave-Adapted Millipedes, Cambala Speobia (Cambalida: Cambalidae) And Speodesmus Bicornourus (Polydesmida: Vanhoeffeniidae), Eddie Bull, Robert W. Mitchell Jan 1972

Temperature And Relative Humidity Responses Of Two Texas Cave-Adapted Millipedes, Cambala Speobia (Cambalida: Cambalidae) And Speodesmus Bicornourus (Polydesmida: Vanhoeffeniidae), Eddie Bull, Robert W. Mitchell

International Journal of Speleology

The temperature and relative humidity preferences and tolerances of two Texas species of cave-adapted millipedes, Cambala speobia (Chamberlin) and Speodesmus bicornourus Causey, were studied. Both species showed gross preferences when tested in gradient chambers for temperatures and relative humidities approximating those of their cave environments. But C. speobia, the less adapted species morphologically, was the more selective of the two species for such conditions. S. bicornourus was far less tolerant of elevated temperatures and reduced relative humidities than was C. speobia. Discussed is a possible reason why a terrestrial troglobite like S. bicornourus would combine intolerance with a …


Le Cinquantenaire Du Premier Institut De Spéléologie Du Monde, Traian Orghidan Jan 1972

Le Cinquantenaire Du Premier Institut De Spéléologie Du Monde, Traian Orghidan

International Journal of Speleology

Description of the activities carried out by the first speleological institute of the world, the Institutul de Spéologie “Emil Racovitza”, founded in 1920 at Cluj in Romania.


A Propos Du Stenasellus Laticarpus Birstein (Crustacea Isopoda Asellota), Guy Magniez Jan 1972

A Propos Du Stenasellus Laticarpus Birstein (Crustacea Isopoda Asellota), Guy Magniez

International Journal of Speleology

The species Stenasellus laticarpus Birstein is closely related to three west-African Stenasellidae, forming the genus Magniezia Lanza. It belongs to the same genus: Stenasellus laticarpus = Magniezia laticarpa (Birstein).


On The Food And Feeding Habits Of Lepidomysis Longipes (Pillai & Mariamma) (Crustacea Mysidacea), C. N. Nath, N. K. Pillai Jan 1972

On The Food And Feeding Habits Of Lepidomysis Longipes (Pillai & Mariamma) (Crustacea Mysidacea), C. N. Nath, N. K. Pillai

International Journal of Speleology

The amount of food available to the subterranean mysid, Lepidomysis longipes (Pillai & Mariamma, 1964) in its habitat has been calculated and analysed. Lepidomysis appears to feed mainly on decaying vegetable matter. Lepidomysis shows many modifications in its external morphology. Consequently, the mode of feeding has undergone some marked changes from that of its epigean relatives. L. longipes is a discontinuous feeder.


Optic Regression In A Subterranean Mysid (Crustacea, Mysidacea), C. N. Nath, D. M. Thampy, N. K. Pillai Jan 1972

Optic Regression In A Subterranean Mysid (Crustacea, Mysidacea), C. N. Nath, D. M. Thampy, N. K. Pillai

International Journal of Speleology

The eyes of the blind subterranean mysid, Lepidomysis longipes are stalked and paired in the embryonic condition. They fuse together in the adult and the optic ganglia are enclosed in a single eyeplate. The ganglia are arranged in the form of an arc on either side anterodorsal to the brain inside the single eyeplate.


La Migration Des Trichoptères Cavernicoles. Mise En Évidence Par Piégeage Lumineux, Yvette Bouvet Jan 1972

La Migration Des Trichoptères Cavernicoles. Mise En Évidence Par Piégeage Lumineux, Yvette Bouvet

International Journal of Speleology

The Trichoptera from the group “Stenophylax” are frequent in caves. Until now, following Jeannel’s thought (1926), most authors believed that these animals were found in caves by hazard and were doomed to perish in them. With the use of a light trap it is now demonstrated that cavernicolous Trichoptera not only stay in caves during the entire summer, but also that during autumn (September-October) they leave the caves to lay their eggs in the nearby rivers.


Biospeologica Sovietica L: Une Nouvelle Espèce Cavernicole De Harpolithobius (Chilopoda, Lithobiidae) Du Caucase, Harpolithobius Birsteini N.Sp., N. T. Zalesskaja Jan 1972

Biospeologica Sovietica L: Une Nouvelle Espèce Cavernicole De Harpolithobius (Chilopoda, Lithobiidae) Du Caucase, Harpolithobius Birsteini N.Sp., N. T. Zalesskaja

International Journal of Speleology

A new troglobite species belonging to the genus Harpolithobius has been discovered during a recent biological exploration of Caucasian caves; 1 male and 2 females were collected in Avidzba cave and are described here. Harpolithobius birsteini n.sp. is the second troglobiotic Lithobiid known from Soviet caves. The other species collected must be considered as mere troglophilous.


Essai Sur La Faune Cavernicole De Bulgarie. Iii. Résultats Des Recherches Biospéologiques De 1966 À 1970, P. Beron Jan 1972

Essai Sur La Faune Cavernicole De Bulgarie. Iii. Résultats Des Recherches Biospéologiques De 1966 À 1970, P. Beron

International Journal of Speleology

The present research follows two other earlier papers on the Bulgarian cave fauna (1962 and 1967). The three papers regroup the data on 431 Bulgarian karst caves, more or less studied from a biospeleological point of view. In this paper one will find a list of 147 new caves and pits with 293 animal species, of which 154 have not been mentioned in the earlier papers. A reference list containing 55 titles has been attached.