"....specialized organisms living in groundwater reservoirs, beneath the
surface, stored in caves, anchihaline habitats, spaces, voids and cracks
between particles of soil, sand, rocks and other material...."






Groundwater Fauna of Australia

Stygobiont Species from the Canary Islands

Anchialine Fauna of the Bahamas and Yucatan
by T. M. Iliffe

Bacteria in Ground Waters

Microorganisms in Ground Waters

Groundwater Sponges

Center for Annelida Resources

World Bibliography on Subterranean Anellida

World Bibliography on Subterranean Hydracarina

Gelyelloid Copepods

Groundwater Misophrioid Copepods

Platycopioid Copepods

Groundwater Cyclopoid Copepods

Groundwater Harpacticoid Copepods

Remipedes

Ostracods (genus Trapezicandona)

Ostracods (genus Pseudocypridopsis)

The Subterranean Amphipod Database
An excellent Site by Holsinger & Koenemann !

Groundwater Mysids

Thermosbaenaceans

Spelaeogriphaceans

Groundwater Mictacea
by T. M. Iliffe

Groundwater Bochusacea

Troglobitic Crayfishes

Syncarids
by A. I. Chamaco Perez

Microparasellid Isopods

Stenasellid Isopods

Groundwater Cirolanid Isopods
by T. M. Iliffe

Water Mites

Hypogean Fishes of the World
by G. Proudlove



Integrated Taxonomic
Information System



  • COURSE OF ZOOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA: STYGOFAUNA

  • IUCN Red List 1996-1999

  • 1949 SPECIES SURVIVAL COMMISSION 1999: 50 YEARS OF CONSERVATION

  • THREATENED STYGOFAUNA OF ITALY

  • DIRECTORY OF ITALIAN ZOOLOGY TAXONOMISTS






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