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Stygofauna are any
fauna that live in
groundwater systems or aquifers, such as caves,
fissures and vugs.
Stygofauna and
troglofauna are the two
types of...
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Related terms are
subterranean fish,
troglomorphic fish,
troglobitic fish,
stygobitic fish,
phreatic fish, and
hypogean fish.[page needed]
There are more than...
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special stygobitic variety of
dytiscids only live underground.
Habitats include pitch-dark wells, boreholes, and caves. Most
stygobitic species are...
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hypogean and
hypogeic are used for
fossorial (burrowing) and
troglobitic (or
stygobitic) cave-living organisms. The
opposite terms are
epigean and epigeic. The...
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Buraco do
Ducho in the
Formoso phreatic system in Brazil. It is a
stygobitic species that is
known to lack eyes and body pigmentation,
which indicate...
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bennetti is a
carnivorous subterranean water beetle. It is the
first stygobitic Dytiscidae to be
recorded in the
Pilbara region of
Western Australia....
- tulumensis is one of 24
species in the
class Remipedia, all of
which are
stygobitic, and
distributed throughout the Caribbean, the
Canary Islands and Western...
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frequently with
attenuated bodies or appendages. The
terms troglobitic,
stygobitic, stygofauna, troglofauna, and
hypogean or hypogeic, are
often used for...
- caves.
Additional po****tions of
stygobitic crayfish have been
identified near the four
known locations.
Stygobitic crayfish have been
observed in Rootville...
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Troglocaris is a
genus of
freshwater shrimp in the
family Atyidae.
These stygobitic,
whitish and
eyeless shrimp are
found in
Southern Europe (Dinaric Alps...
