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Neobisium (Roncobisium) Allodentatum N. Sg., N. Sp. De Pseudoscorpion Neobisiidae (Arachnides) Habitant Une Caverne Du Département De Saône-Et-Loire, France, Max Vachon Jan 1967

Neobisium (Roncobisium) Allodentatum N. Sg., N. Sp. De Pseudoscorpion Neobisiidae (Arachnides) Habitant Une Caverne Du Département De Saône-Et-Loire, France, Max Vachon

International Journal of Speleology

Neobisium (Roncobisium) allodentatum, a species inhabiting a cave in Saone-et-Loire, France, belongs to a new subgenus of Neobisium of which the essential characters are the possession of accessory teeth on the chelae (fig. 14) and a relative position of trichobothria eb and esb (fig. 8) recalling that of the species of Roncus. A determination key fixes the position of this new subgenus with respect to the four other known subgenera of Neobisium.

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Underground Solution Canyons In The Central Kentucky Karst, U.S.A., Richard A. Watson Jan 1967

Underground Solution Canyons In The Central Kentucky Karst, U.S.A., Richard A. Watson

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Solution canyons are underground voids 1 to 15 + meters wide, 3 to 45 + meters high, and 30 to 300 + meters long. Floors are stepped, ceilings level. Size increases downstream. Their course is sinuous, with some angularity. They occur parallel to and directly under or slightly offset from the thalwegs of re-entrant valleys tributary to major karst valleys. A section across a re-entrant and underlying solution canyon shows a rough hour-glass shape. Solution canyons are related genetically to solutional vertical shafts, forming where removal of the impermeable sandstone caprock permits the vertical descent of water through jointed limestone. …

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Die Lampen-Moosflora Der Beatushöhle Und Deren Vergleich Mit Anderen Europäisehen Höhlen, R. Bernasconi Jan 1967

Die Lampen-Moosflora Der Beatushöhle Und Deren Vergleich Mit Anderen Europäisehen Höhlen, R. Bernasconi

International Journal of Speleology

The Bryological flora on the lamps of the St- Beatus Höhle is analysed. A statistic comparison of lampenflora from other 18 European caves shows the composition and the type of this flora is related to the humidity and to the difference in substratum. Ten species can be referred to as typical flora of show caves.

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Further Investigations Into Bacterial And Algal Populations Of Caves In South Wales, M. Ann Mason-Williams Jan 1967

Further Investigations Into Bacterial And Algal Populations Of Caves In South Wales, M. Ann Mason-Williams

International Journal of Speleology

Some physical data collected over a period of a year in seven locations of the Ogof Ffynnon Ddu cave system in South Wales are reported, including humidity, air and water temperature, pH of the water, as well as the organic oxygen demand of the water. It is shown that seasonal variations in the physical constant in this particular cave system are not well marked. Algae and bacteria were isolated from the soil samples and from calcareous deposits. A total of 30 algal species, of which 13 belong to the Cyanophyta, 22 to the Chlorophyta, and 7 to the …

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A New Species Of Gomphonema (Bacillariophyta) From Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, Sam L. Van Landingham Jan 1967

A New Species Of Gomphonema (Bacillariophyta) From Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, Sam L. Van Landingham

International Journal of Speleology

In some materials collected from Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, a diatom was found which could not be identified with any known species. A taxonomic description of Gomphonema hotchkissii nov. spec. is given.

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Analyse Du Comportement Alimentaire Du Poisson Cavernicole Aveugle Anoptichthys Gen. Et D'Hybrides F1 (Astyanax X Anoptichthys) Et F2, Georges Thines, Monique Soffie, Erik Vandenbussche Jan 1967

Analyse Du Comportement Alimentaire Du Poisson Cavernicole Aveugle Anoptichthys Gen. Et D'Hybrides F1 (Astyanax X Anoptichthys) Et F2, Georges Thines, Monique Soffie, Erik Vandenbussche

International Journal of Speleology

The feeding behaviour of the blind cave fish Anoptichthys is characterised by two phases, an initial short chemioreceptic one and second one in which the fish explores the bottom systematically for a longer period. The whole process last approximately 30 seconds, both in adults as in youngsters.

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Mise En Evidence De Substances Fluorescentes Dans Les Organes Jaunes De Caccosphaeroma Burgundum Dollfus, Crustacé Isopode Des Eaux Souterraines, H. Descimon, C. Marvillet Jan 1967

Mise En Evidence De Substances Fluorescentes Dans Les Organes Jaunes De Caccosphaeroma Burgundum Dollfus, Crustacé Isopode Des Eaux Souterraines, H. Descimon, C. Marvillet

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Chromatographic analysis of the yellow organs of the fresh-water Isopod Crustacean Caecosphaeroma burgundum Dollfus revealed, through observation of the chromatograms in ultraviolet light, the occurrence of both absorbing and fluorescent substances. Among the latter, only isoxanthopterin has been identified. The yellow pigment, which probably has a pteridine nucleus, could not be identified as a known compound and will be the object of later investigations.

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Algal Growth Experiments In The Baradla Cave At Aggtelek (Biospeleologica Hungarica Xxi), Erzsebet Kol Jan 1967

Algal Growth Experiments In The Baradla Cave At Aggtelek (Biospeleologica Hungarica Xxi), Erzsebet Kol

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The author kept 108 algal strains (Cyanophyta 53, Chlorophyta 35, Chrysophyta 20), of axenic cultures from the Kol-Algotheca in the Botanical Division of the Hungarian National Sciences Museum in the Baradla Cave, at Aggletek (Hungary) in darkness for 204-420 days under different environmental conditions. The experiments have proven that several algal strains can tolerate well the complete absence of light. Furthermore, that some algal strains show intensive development even under such conditions. These axenic cultures kept in the cave in metal boxes on inorganic medium have shown that the energy source used by these green coloured algae is not …

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Documents Pour Servir À La Connaissance De La Laune De Mammifères Des Grottes Du Banat (Roumanie), Alexandrina Negrea, Lazare Botosaneanu, Stefan Negrea Jan 1967

Documents Pour Servir À La Connaissance De La Laune De Mammifères Des Grottes Du Banat (Roumanie), Alexandrina Negrea, Lazare Botosaneanu, Stefan Negrea

International Journal of Speleology

The authors assembled from about 70 caves a rich collection of osteological material and specimens of living or fossil mammals. A list of the caves is given with an enumeration of the identified species for each cave. Under each species the caves which supplied the material are listed. This is followed by an inventory of the osteological material and by observations on the living animals (especially bats). Fifty-three mammal species (fossil and living) were accurately determined (14 carnivores, 6 artiodactyls, 1 lagomorph, 10 rodents, 3 insectivores, and 19 bats).

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Summary Of Results Obtained During A Preliminary Investigation Into The Bacterial And Botanical Flora Of Caves In South Wales, M. Ann Mason-Williams, Kathryn Benson-Evans Jan 1967

Summary Of Results Obtained During A Preliminary Investigation Into The Bacterial And Botanical Flora Of Caves In South Wales, M. Ann Mason-Williams, Kathryn Benson-Evans

International Journal of Speleology

The results of an investigation into the bacterial and botanical flora of South Welsh caves are presented in tabular form. Bacterial counts and species isolated from the caves both from soil and water samples as well as from the air, also the macroscopic plants found in the photic zone are enumerated.

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Bioluminescence In Melosira Varians Ag., George Claus Jan 1967

Bioluminescence In Melosira Varians Ag., George Claus

International Journal of Speleology

Bluish green bioluminescence in a diatom, Melosira varians Ag. growing in an abandoned tin mine in Cornwall was observed. Upon microscopic examination the chloroplasts of the algae were found to be very pale but no other feature was seen which could be correlated with the luminescence.

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Die Ökologische Stellung Der Höhlen-Und Spaltengewässer Innerhalb Der Subterranaquatilen Lebensbereiche, Siegfried Husmann Jan 1967

Die Ökologische Stellung Der Höhlen-Und Spaltengewässer Innerhalb Der Subterranaquatilen Lebensbereiche, Siegfried Husmann

International Journal of Speleology

Bodies of waters in caves and in crevices of rocks are distinguished from the other subsoil water ecosystems (“eustygon”, “stygorhithron”, “stygopotamon”) under the names “troglostygon” and “petrostygon”. The colonisation of subsoil water biotopes involves a fundamental principle which controls the development of the main biotopes for the stygobiont undergroundwater organisms. According to this ecological rule, which is described in detail and formulated, the several interstitial biotopes (for example “eustygopsammal,” “rhithrostygopsammal,” “potamostygopsephal”) are to be considered as the real biotopes of the stygobiont subsoil water organisms; waters in caves, on the contrary, are secondary biotopes of these animals. Caves which contain …

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Nuevas Citas De Murciélagos Españoles, E. Balcells R. Jan 1966

Nuevas Citas De Murciélagos Españoles, E. Balcells R.

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Short citation on new findings of bats in Spanish caves.

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The Geographical Distribution Of Australian Cave-Dwelling Chiroptera, E. Hamilton-Smith Jan 1966

The Geographical Distribution Of Australian Cave-Dwelling Chiroptera, E. Hamilton-Smith

International Journal of Speleology

Of the 56 species of bats currently recorded from Australia, 22 are known to occur in caves. The geographical distribution of each of these species is detailed, and from this data, the species are divided into four groups according to their pattern of distribution. Group I comprises those species found only North of 18°S latitude, all of which either also occur in New Guinea or are closely related to New Guinea species. Group II, including both endemic Australian genera, occurs over that area North of 28°S latitude. This area largely comprises desert or semi-desert terrain, with its characteristics of low …

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Materialien Über Die Ökologie Und Biologie Von Sphaeromides Bureschi Strouhal, Angel Angelov Jan 1966

Materialien Über Die Ökologie Und Biologie Von Sphaeromides Bureschi Strouhal, Angel Angelov

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The acquatic cave Isopod Sphaeromides bureschi Strouhal was discovered by I. Buresch in the underground water of two caves in western Stara-Planina. In this paper the author describes a new station, a spring, in the same region and then exposes the results of ecological and biological observations on this species (biotope, temperature, sex-ratio, feeding regime, locomotion).

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Three New Species Of Cymbella From Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, Sam L. Van Landingham Jan 1966

Three New Species Of Cymbella From Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, Sam L. Van Landingham

International Journal of Speleology

During an investigation of the diatom flora of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky three Cymbella species were noted which could not be identified with any yet described forms. This paper contains a taxonomic description of the three new species: Cymbella clausii, Cymbella gerloffii, Cymbella hohnii. A common feature of all three species is the rather broad central area which may have been the result of a special adaptation to the cave environment.

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Contribution À L'Etude De Bathynella D'Europe: Bathynella Natans Vejdovsky, Un Dilemme À Résoudre, Eugène Serban Jan 1966

Contribution À L'Etude De Bathynella D'Europe: Bathynella Natans Vejdovsky, Un Dilemme À Résoudre, Eugène Serban

International Journal of Speleology

After a minute study of the structure of the 8th male pereiopod in some Bathynella populations from Romania and England, the structure differences which were found allowed to identify two well individualized kinds of pereiopods; they were named type natans and type stammeri. Taking into account the striking differences between these two types, B. stammeri (Jakobi), which since 1954 is considered to be a subspecies of the natans species, was separated out of the species B. natans sensu Jakobi (1954). The populations understudied were collected in England and Romania, their minute study being the object of an other note, …

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Algological Studies In The Cave Of Mátyás Mount, Budapest, Hungary, Lajos Hajdu Jan 1966

Algological Studies In The Cave Of Mátyás Mount, Budapest, Hungary, Lajos Hajdu

International Journal of Speleology

Experiments were designed to test the ability of the aphotic speleoenvironment to support algal growth. The first series contained gelatin cultures of Scenedesmus placed in the cave at different localities in order to establish whether or not the microhabitats have any particular effect on the multiplication of the algae. No differences were found in the cultures after a three month incubation period in the cave, which could be traced to influences of microenvironmental conditions. Chlorella cultures in sterile Knop’s solution showed measurable growth in the cave whereas if the cultures were installed into sterilized cave water or were shielded by …

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Calcite-Aragonite Speleothems From A Hand-Dug Cave In Northeast Kansas, Frederic R. Siegel, Wakefield Dort Jr. Jan 1966

Calcite-Aragonite Speleothems From A Hand-Dug Cave In Northeast Kansas, Frederic R. Siegel, Wakefield Dort Jr.

International Journal of Speleology

Speleothems in the form of stalactites, linear stalactitic growths, flowstone, and crusts, from a hand-dug cave in Northeast Kansas (Sec. 2 NENW, T2S, R22E) are composed of calcite and aragonite. If the estimated age of the cave is correct, i.e., 150 to 200 years old, the stalactites have grown at a maximum rate of 0.20 to 0.15 millimetres per year along their vertical axes. All of the speleothems examined contain about one percent strontium (based on qualitative emission spectrograph analyses). Rate of supply and evaporation of the vadose waters may dictate whether aragonite or calcite is the polymorph that precipitates …

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Contribution À La Systématique Des Stenasellinae D'Afrique (Crustacés, Asellotes), Guy Magniez Jan 1966

Contribution À La Systématique Des Stenasellinae D'Afrique (Crustacés, Asellotes), Guy Magniez

International Journal of Speleology

From 1897 to 1962, many species have been described as belonging to the genus Stenasellus Dollfus. Among all these the forms from Central Africa and one of Western Africa are not conform to the generic description of Racovitza 1924 obliging us to institute two new genera, Metastenasellus and Parastenasellus. The archaeic Asellota belong to the genus Stenasellus Dollfus, Johannella Monod, Metastenasellus nov.gen. and Parastenasellus nov. gen. are thus grouped in a sub family of Stenasellinae and the relationship between the different groups has still to be explained.

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Contribución Al Conocimiento De Los Speophilus Del Grupo Kiesenwetteri Diek, Oleguer Escolà I Boada Jan 1966

Contribución Al Conocimiento De Los Speophilus Del Grupo Kiesenwetteri Diek, Oleguer Escolà I Boada

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The author has studied the group kiesenwetteri of the genus Speophilus (Col. Catopidae), endemic of Catalogna (Spain). The paper comprises a geographical and geological analysis of the by this group colonised massifs, with a study on the geological isolation of the species and a faunistic study of the 5 actually known forms, one of which is new.

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Pelodrilus Bureschi Mich. 1924 (Oligochaeta Haplotaxidae Dans Les Grottes Du Banat (Roumanie), Francise Botea, Lazare Botoşaneanu Jan 1966

Pelodrilus Bureschi Mich. 1924 (Oligochaeta Haplotaxidae Dans Les Grottes Du Banat (Roumanie), Francise Botea, Lazare Botoşaneanu

International Journal of Speleology

Pelodrilus bureschi Mich., one of two species of limicolous oligochaetes strictly confined to a subterranean environment and previously known from several caves in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, was recently found in three caves in the Banat Mountains, Romania. Examination of sexually mature worms showed that they are within the range of variability of P. bureschi and that there is no reason to describe a form peculiar to the caves of Banat. Pelodrilus has almost always been found in the mud or clay covering the bottom of pools of variable size, which are filled by periodic flooding of underground water courses. The …

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Hydracariens Souterrains De Bulgarie. I. Mideopsis (Nudomideopsis) Motasi N. Sp., Anelya Petrova Jan 1966

Hydracariens Souterrains De Bulgarie. I. Mideopsis (Nudomideopsis) Motasi N. Sp., Anelya Petrova

International Journal of Speleology

A new species of Mideopsis (Nudomideopsis) motasi n. sp. coming from a well near Gorni-Ciflik, close to Belogradchik in NW Bulgaria, is described. For the structure of the palp it is distinguished from the other subterranean European species Mideopsis (Mideopsis (Nudomideopsis) longipalpis Szalay and Mideopsis (Nudomideopsis) fonticola Tanasachi et Orghidan and resembles some Japonese Mideopsis species found also in wells.

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Remarques Sur L'Espèce Asellus Cavaticus Leydig (Crustacé Isopode Hypogé) Et Description D'Une Sous-Espèce Nouvelle, Jean-Paul Henry Jan 1966

Remarques Sur L'Espèce Asellus Cavaticus Leydig (Crustacé Isopode Hypogé) Et Description D'Une Sous-Espèce Nouvelle, Jean-Paul Henry

International Journal of Speleology

In Europe, Asellus cavaticus Leydig until 1963 was the only species known of a phyletic line that extended from Britain to Austria. Until the works of Racovitza in 1919 all the Asellus of the underground world were reported to this species, first known subterranean Asellus. The taxonomic criteria of Racovitza allowed to determine many subspecies. Later on Chappuis refuses to give names to the different encountered forms. Taking as type forms the individuals of the grotte de Sainte-Reine (Meurthe-et-Moselle), considered very similar to the original type forms, we think to be able to define a new subspecies puteanus for …

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Haptolana Trichostoma, A New Genus And Species Of Troglobitic Cirolanid Isopod From Cuba, Thomas E. Bowman Jan 1966

Haptolana Trichostoma, A New Genus And Species Of Troglobitic Cirolanid Isopod From Cuba, Thomas E. Bowman

International Journal of Speleology

Haptolana trichostoma, described from 2 specimens collected in a cave in Camaguey Province, Cuba, is distinguished especially by the expanded peduncle of antenna 1, the posteriorly directed mandibular palp, and in having all 7 pereopods prehensile. This is the second recorded occurrence of a troglohitic cirolanid in Cuba and the eighth species reported from the Western Hemisphere.

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Über Höhlenbewohnende Moose, László Vajda Jan 1966

Über Höhlenbewohnende Moose, László Vajda

International Journal of Speleology

Among the mosses collected by Dr. K. Verseghy in the caves of the environment of Lillafured Eucladium verticillatum (L.) Br. Eur. was found which had some peculiar bulbillae composed of two to many cells on the ends of the filaments. They may represent special reproductive organs as yet unknown in this genus. None of the mosses living in the caves developed sex organs.

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Algae From The Cave Of Mátyás Mount, Budapest, Hungary, P. Palik Jan 1966

Algae From The Cave Of Mátyás Mount, Budapest, Hungary, P. Palik

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Seven collections containing scrapings of speleoclay or samples from the cave waters were received from L. Hajdu and were cultured in light in a modified Knop’s solution. The cultures yielded 21 different algal taxa, of which five species belong to the Cyanophyta four to the Bacillariophycaea class of the Chrysophyta and twelve to the Chlorophyta. From the species distribution, the cave shows a similarity to the nearby cave of Pàlvolgy, namely both of them contained more than 50 per cent Chlorophyta. Among the Cyanophyta the occurrence of Baradlaia speluncaecola Palik is noteworthy. This species seems to be a true troglobitic …

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Ephemeropteren Und Plecopteren Aus Bulgarischen Höhlen, Boris K. Russev Jan 1966

Ephemeropteren Und Plecopteren Aus Bulgarischen Höhlen, Boris K. Russev

International Journal of Speleology

The mayfly Ecdyonurus venosus (Fabr.) and the stonefly Perla marginata bureschi (Schoenemund) have been previously recorded from Bulgarian caves. The author has found the following additional species in the material collected by his colleagues in Bulgarian caves: Ephemeroptera - Habroleptoides modesta (Hagen), Paraleptophlebia tumida Bengtss. and Paraleptophlebia sp.; Plecoptera - Nemoura sp. and Dinocras cephalotes (Curtis). All these species are trogloxenes.

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Nouvelles Contributions À L'Ètude De Bathynella (Bathynella) Natans Vejd. Et Bathynella (Antrobathynella) Stammeri (Jakobi), Eugène Serban Jan 1966

Nouvelles Contributions À L'Ètude De Bathynella (Bathynella) Natans Vejd. Et Bathynella (Antrobathynella) Stammeri (Jakobi), Eugène Serban

International Journal of Speleology

In an earlier paper the author separated Bathynella stammeri (Jakobi) (formerly considered a subspecies) from B. natans Vejd. sensu Jakobi and showed that this new species justified the erection of a new subgenus (Antrobathynella) of Bathynella. Study of the morphology of the mandible, and the 8th pereiopod of the male and female, and examination of the chaetotaxy of the uropods have revealed new diagnostic characters which permit the unequivocal separation of B. natans and B. stammeri. A diagnosis of both species is given. The present study is the result of examination of numerous specimens from many …

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Sobre Bathysciinae Catalanes (Col. Catopidae), F. Español Jan 1966

Sobre Bathysciinae Catalanes (Col. Catopidae), F. Español

International Journal of Speleology

Elencation of Speonomus and Speophilus (Col. Catopidae) collected by different speleologists in relation with the Museum of Zoology of Barcelona in caves where no beetles had been found yet, completing the knowledge on cave Coleoptera on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees. The paper also contains the description of two new species (Speonomus aurouxi and Speophilus subilsi), and a short comment on Troglocharinus impelletierii Espaù. described as a race of hustachei Jeann., but different from this species by several characters that distinguish it very well, justifying its geographical isolation.

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