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Typhlocaris
''Typhlocaris'' is a genus of blind cave-dwelling shrimp, placed in its own family, Typhlocarididae. It contains 4 species: *''Typhlocaris ayyaloni ''Typhlocaris ayyaloni'' is a species of troglobitic shrimp in the family Typhlocarididae. Description This species grows to 4 to 5 cm in length and is blind. Distribution ''Typhlocaris ayyaloni'' species was discovered in 2008 in the A ...'' Tsurnamal, 2008 – Israel *'' Typhlocaris galilea'' Calman, 1909 – Israel *'' Typhlocaris lethaea'' Parisi, 1920 – Libya *'' Typhlocaris salentina'' Caroli, 1923 – Apulia (Italy) References Palaemonoidea Cave shrimp {{Caridea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Typhlocaris Lethaea
''Typhlocaris'' is a genus of blind cave-dwelling shrimp, placed in its own family, Typhlocarididae. It contains 4 species: *''Typhlocaris ayyaloni'' Tsurnamal, 2008 – Israel *'' Typhlocaris galilea'' Calman, 1909 – Israel *'' Typhlocaris lethaea'' Parisi, 1920 – Libya *''Typhlocaris salentina ''Typhlocaris'' is a genus of blind cave-dwelling shrimp, placed in its own family, Typhlocarididae. It contains 4 species: *''Typhlocaris ayyaloni ''Typhlocaris ayyaloni'' is a species of troglobitic shrimp in the family Typhlocarididae. ...'' Caroli, 1923 – Apulia (Italy) References Palaemonoidea Cave shrimp {{Caridea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Typhlocaris Galilea
''Typhlocaris galilea'' is a species of troglobitic shrimp in the genus ''Typhlocaris'', and is endemic to one pool and spring that feeds it, at Tabgha in Israel. The species is critically endangered and a conservation programme to conserve the species has begun. Description The relict species was first described in 1909, by William Thomas Calman. The shrimp are semi-transparent and blind. Adult specimens are approximately long. Their diet probably consists mainly of a small red tubificid worm, '' Isochaeta israelis''. Distribution The shrimp is endemic to one chamber of a Roman cistern, Ein-Nur octagonal pool (the private property of a monastery, at ), and a warm (), sulphuric, saline subterranean spring that feeds it, at Tabgha, on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel. Conservation The species is now critically endangered, as the extraction of ground water has allowed foreign water into the pool, changing its composition and temperature. It is legally pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Typhlocaris Ayyaloni
''Typhlocaris ayyaloni'' is a species of troglobitic shrimp in the family Typhlocarididae. Description This species grows to 4 to 5 cm in length and is blind. Distribution ''Typhlocaris ayyaloni'' species was discovered in 2008 in the Ayalon Cave in Israel, 100 meters below ground, with no natural access to the surface. It was found living in a small pool of sulphide-rich, brackish water. It is one of eight new species recently discovered in the area, the others being '' Tethysbaena ophelicola'', '' Metacyclops longimaxillis'', '' Metacyclops subdolus'', '' Akrav israchanani'' (a land species, only found dead and also in other parts of the cave), '' Ayyalonia dimentmani'' (land species), '' Lepidospora ayyalonica'' (land species), and a still-unnamed species in the genus ''Collembola Springtails (class Collembola) form the largest of the three lineages of modern hexapods that are no longer considered insects. Although the three lineages are sometimes grouped together ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thomas Calman
William Thomas Calman (29 December 1871 – 29 September 1952) was a Scottish zoologist, specialising in the Crustacea. From 1927 to 1936 he was Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum (Natural History) (now the Natural History Museum). Life He was born in Dundee, the son of Thomas Calman, a music teacher, and Agnes Beatts Maclean. He studied at the High School of Dundee. In the scientific societies in Dundee, he met D'Arcy Thompson. He later became Thompson's lab boy, which allowed him to attend lectures at University College, Dundee for free. A. D. Peacock, one of Thompson's successors to the chair of Natural history at Dundee, believed this appointment came about following a letter sent by Calman in 1891 asking Thompson's advice as to applying for a post in Edinburgh. After his graduation with distinction in 1895, he took on a lecturership at the university, where he remained for eight years. When Thompson died, Calman, along with Douglas Young, wrote his obituary noti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troglobite
A troglobite (or, formally, troglobiont) is an animal species, or population of a species, strictly bound to underground habitats, such as caves. These are separate from species that mainly live in above-ground habitats but are also able to live underground (eutroglophiles), and species that are only cave visitors (subtroglophiles and trogloxenes). Land-dwelling troglobites may be referred to as troglofauna, while aquatic species may be called stygofauna, although for these animals the term ''stygobite'' is preferable. Troglobites typically have evolutionary adaptations to cave life. Examples of such adaptations include slow metabolism, reduced energy consumption, better food usage efficiency, decrease or loss of eyesight (anophthalmia), and depigmentation (absence of pigment in the integument). Conversely, as opposed to lost or reduced functions, many species have evolved elongated antenna (biology), antenna and leg, locomotory appendages, in order to better move around and respon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palaemonoidea
Palaemonoidea is a large superfamily of shrimp, containing nearly 1,000 species. The position of the family Typhlocarididae is unclear, although the monophyly of a group containing the remaining seven families is well supported. * Anchistioididae Borradaile, 1915 * Desmocarididae Borradaile, 1915 *Euryrhynchidae Holthuis, 1950 * Gnathophyllidae Dana, 1852 * Hymenoceridae Ortmann, 1890 * Kakaducarididae Bruce, 1993 *Palaemonidae Rafinesque, 1815 * Typhlocarididae Annandale & Kemp, 1913 Image:Gnathophyllum americanum Réunion.JPG, '' Gnathophyllum americanum'', a Palaemonidae Image:Harlequin Shrimp 1.jpg, '' Hymenocera picta'', the only Hymenoceridae Image:Emperor Shrimp - Periclimenes imperator.jpg, '' Periclimenes imperator'', a Palaemonidae Palaemonidae is a family of shrimp in the order Decapoda. Many species are carnivores that eat small invertebrates, and can be found in any aquatic habitat except the deep sea. One significant genus is '' Macrobrachium'', which contain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelson Annandale
Thomas Nelson Annandale Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire, CIE Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE (15 June 1876, in Edinburgh – 10 April 1924, in Calcutta) was a British zoology, zoologist, entomologist, anthropology, anthropologist, and Herpetology, herpetologist. He was the founding director of the Zoological Survey of India. Life The eldest son of Thomas Annandale, the regius professor of Regius Chair of Clinical Surgery, clinical surgery at the University of Edinburgh. His maternal grandfather was a publisher, William Nelson. Thomas was educated at Rugby School, Balliol College, Oxford where he studied under Ray Lankester and Edward Burnett Tylor, E. B. Tylor (doing better in anthropology than zoology), and at the University of Edinburgh where he studied anthropology, receiving a D.Sc. (1905). As a student he made visits to Iceland and the Faeroe Islands. In 1899 he travelled with Herbert C. Robinson as part of the Skeat Expedition to the northern part of the Malay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. Phylogeneti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caridea
The Caridea, commonly known as caridean shrimp or true shrimp, from the Greek word καρίς, καρίδος (karís, karídos, “shrimp”), are an infraorder of shrimp within the order Decapoda. This infraorder contains all species of true shrimp. They are found widely around the world in both fresh water, fresh and seawater, salt water. Many other animals with similar names – such as the mud shrimp of Axiidea and the boxer shrimp of Stenopodidea – are not true shrimp, but many have evolved features similar to true shrimp. Biology Carideans are found in every kind of aquatic habitat, with the majority of species being marine. Around a quarter of the described species are found in fresh water, however, including almost all the members of the species-rich family Atyidae and the Palaemonidae subfamily Palaemoninae. They include several commercially important species, such as ''Macrobrachium rosenbergii'', and are found on every continent except Antarctica. The marine species ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crustaceana
''Crustaceana'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal specialising in carcinology. It was established in 1960 and is published monthly by Brill Publishers. The journal is abstracted and indexed by BIOSIS Previews, the Science Citation Index, The Zoological Record, and GeoRef. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 0.464. The journal is edited by J.C. von Vaupel Klein. It charges an unspecified publication fee from authors of all regular papers, and an optional open access fee of USD 1830.CrustaceanaInstructions for Authors . Brill Publishers Brill Academic Publishers () is a Dutch international academic publisher of books, academic journals, and Bibliographic database, databases founded in 1683, making it one of the oldest publishing houses in the Netherlands. Founded in the South .... References External links * * Carcinology journals Academic journals established in 1960 Monthly journals Brill Publishers academi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transactions Of The Linnean Society Of London
The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and taxonomy. It possesses several important biological specimen, manuscript and literature collections, and publishes academic journals and books on plant and animal biology. The society also awards a number of prestigious medals and prizes. A product of the 18th-century enlightenment, the society is the oldest extant biological society in the world and is historically important as the venue for the first public presentation of the theory of evolution by natural selection on 1 July 1858. The patron of the society is Anne, Princess Royal. Honorary members include: King Charles III of the United Kingdom, Emeritus Emperor Akihito of Japan, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (both of the latter have active interests in natural history), and the eminent naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. History Founding The Linnean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
