Thomas M. Iliffe, Horst Wilkens, Jakob Parzefall and Dennis Williams. 1984.
Marine lava cave fauna: Composition, biogeography and origins. Science, 225:309-311.
An assemblage of endemic cavericolous marine invertebrates,
including taxa found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean of great phylogenetic
age or with affinities to deep sea organisms, inhabits the Jameos del Agua cave,
a sea water-flooded Holocene lava tube cave on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.
This marine cave contains both relicts from Tethyan times, such as an apparently
new crustacean family belonging to what had been the monotypic class Remipedia,
and relicts of groups that are now common only in the deep sea as well as
species that occur outside the cave.
Thomas M. Iliffe, Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at
Galveston, P.O. Box 1675, Galveston, Texas 77553, USA
- Horst Wilkens & Jakob Parzefall,
Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3,
20146 Hamburg, Germany.
E-mail:
iliffet@tamug.edu
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wilkens@zoologie.uni-hamburg.de
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parzefall@zoologie.uni-hamburg.de
Keywords: lava tube; cave fauna; biogeography; marine invertebrates;
Canary Islands.
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