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]


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

 


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