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Five million years in the darkness: A new troglomorphic species of Cryptops Leach, 1814 (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha) from Movile Cave, Romania

A new species of Cryptops Leach, 1814, C. speleorexsp. nov., is described from Movile Cave, Dobrogea, Romania. The cave is remarkable for its unique ecosystem entirely dependent on methane- and sulfur-oxidising bacteria. Until now, the cave was thought to be inhabited by the epigean species C. anoma...

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Autores principales: Vahtera, Varpu, Stoev, Pavel, Akkari, Nesrine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7758309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33384564
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1004.58537

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