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SUBMITTER: de Souza ST
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4304035 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de Souza Stella Teles ST Morais Ana Laura Nunes AL Cordeiro Lívia Medeiros LM Leal-Zanchet Ana Maria AM
ZooKeys 20150112 470
Brazilian cave diversity, especially of invertebrates, is poorly known. The Bodoquena Plateau, which is located in the Cerrado Biome in central Brazil, has approximately 200 recorded caves with a rich system of subterranean water resources and high troglobitic diversity. Herein we describe a new troglobitic species of Girardia that represents the first obligate cave-dwelling species of the suborder Continenticola in South America. Specimens of the new species, which occur in a limestone cave in ...[more]