Seven years after the discovery of the chemoautotrophic sulfidic groundwater site of the Ayyalon cave, its macrofauna can be fully reviewed. It consists of six endemic stygobiont and troglo-biont crustaceans and other...Seven years after the discovery of the chemoautotrophic sulfidic groundwater site of the Ayyalon cave, its macrofauna can be fully reviewed. It consists of six endemic stygobiont and troglo-biont crustaceans and other arthropods and two species still with unclear status. The taxonomic list is followed by brief discussions on the systematics of the species as well as by a few comments concerning the eventual broader zoogeographical and speleological implications of the Ayyalon faunistic findings, as they appeared in literature.展开更多
With the discovery of Ophel, a chemosynthesis-based continental subterranean environment (Por 2007), it becameevident that such environments, previously known only from the sea , are spanning the world as a parallel b...With the discovery of Ophel, a chemosynthesis-based continental subterranean environment (Por 2007), it becameevident that such environments, previously known only from the sea , are spanning the world as a parallel biosphere,the deuterobiosphere. In this preliminary contribution the different known biomes of the deuterobiosphere arereviewed and some general and comparative features are listed.展开更多
文摘Seven years after the discovery of the chemoautotrophic sulfidic groundwater site of the Ayyalon cave, its macrofauna can be fully reviewed. It consists of six endemic stygobiont and troglo-biont crustaceans and other arthropods and two species still with unclear status. The taxonomic list is followed by brief discussions on the systematics of the species as well as by a few comments concerning the eventual broader zoogeographical and speleological implications of the Ayyalon faunistic findings, as they appeared in literature.
文摘With the discovery of Ophel, a chemosynthesis-based continental subterranean environment (Por 2007), it becameevident that such environments, previously known only from the sea , are spanning the world as a parallel biosphere,the deuterobiosphere. In this preliminary contribution the different known biomes of the deuterobiosphere arereviewed and some general and comparative features are listed.
