Invertebrate community of Roaring Springs Cave, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Drost CA and Blinn DW. 1997. Invertebrate community of Roaring Springs Cave, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. The Southwestern Naturalist. 42(4):497-500
"We conducted an intensive survey of the Roaring Springs Cave system in 1994 and 1995, and found several aquatic invertebrates, as well as additional terrestrial species. We present a total of nine additional unreported species for Roaring Springs Cave, bringing the total known invertebrate fauna for this cave to 19 species. The fauna can be divided into a shallow cave group of species, presumably troglophilic or "accidental", a middle cave fauna, and a single, deep-cave troglobitic amphipod. The amphipod is an undescribed, apparently endemic species in the genus Stygobromus. This is the first report of aquatic invertebrates from caves in the northern Arizona area." [Cambridge Scientific Abstracts]
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Drost, Charles; Blinn, Dean
- Units
- GRCA
- Keywords
- Aquatic, Caves, Endemic Species, Habitat, Invertebrates (Invertebrata), New Species, Roaring Springs Cave (GRCA)